FUNEREAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does funereal mean? 

• FUNEREAL (adjective)
  The adjective FUNEREAL has 1 sense:

1. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial

  Familiarity information: FUNEREAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUNEREAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial

Synonyms:

funereal; sepulchral

Context example:

hollow sepulchral tones

Similar:

joyless (not experiencing or inspiring joy)

Derivation:

funeral (a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated)

 Context examples 

An almost funereal gloom seemed to have descended upon the Ghost.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Will not your mind misgive you when you find yourself in this gloomy chamber—too lofty and extensive for you, with only the feeble rays of a single lamp to take in its size—its walls hung with tapestry exhibiting figures as large as life, and the bed, of dark green stuff or purple velvet, presenting even a funereal appearance?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Never did tombs look so ghastly white; never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funereal gloom; never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously; never did bough creak so mysteriously; and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)