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From Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus + -al.
funereal (comparative more funereal, superlative most funereal)
- Of or relating to a funeral.
- Synonym: funerary
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], pages 293–294:
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, published 2011, page 474:
Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god.
- Similar to or befitting the mood or elements of a funeral: slow; black colors; formal; dignified or solemn.
1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
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.
relating to a funeral
- Breton: (please verify) kañv (br) noun in apposition
- Bulgarian: погреба́лен (pogrebálen), траурен (bg) (trauren)
- Catalan: funerari, funeral, fúnebre (ca)
- Chinese:
- Czech: pohřební (cs)
- Danish: begravelses-
- Dutch: begrafenis-
- Esperanto: funebra
- Finnish: hautajais-
- French: funéraire (fr), funèbre (fr)
- German: Beisetzung (de)
- Greek: πένθιμος (el) (pénthimos)
- Ido: funerala (io)
- Interlingua: funeral
- Italian: funebre (it), funerario, funereo (it), mortuario (it)
- Japanese: 葬式の (soshiki no)
- Korean: 장례의 (jangnyeui)
- Latin: fūnereus, funeralis (Late)
- Norwegian: begravelses-
- Polish: pogrzebowy (pl)
- Portuguese: funeral (pt), fúnebre (pt), funéreo (pt), funerário (pt)
- Romanian: funerar (ro), sepulcral (ro), mormântal (ro), funeralii (ro), funebru (ro)
- Russian: похоро́нный (ru) (poxorónnyj), погреба́льный (ru) (pogrebálʹnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: funerario (es), fúnebre (es), funeral (es)
- Sranan Tongo: beri
- Swedish: begravnings-
- Welsh: angladdol (cy)