funereal

• funeral (uncommon)

From Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus +‎ -al.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fjuːˈnɪəɹɪ.əl/

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funereal (comparative more funereal, superlative most funereal)

1. Of or relating to a funeral.

   Synonym: funerary

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], OCLC 560090630:

     From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.

   • 2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 474:

     Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god.

2. Similar to or befitting the mood or elements of a funeral: slow; black colors; formal; dignified or solemn.
   • 1900, William Beckford, The History of the Caliph Vathek‎, page 171:

     "A funereal gloom prevailed over the whole scene."

   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:

     There was something menacing and uncomfortable in the funereal stillness, in the muffled, subtle trickle of distant brooks, and in the crowding green peaks and black-wooded precipices that choked the narrow horizon.