Related Words for dirge

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requiem
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Noun
lament
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Noun, Noun
mournful
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Adjective
elegy
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Noun
ballad
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Noun
lugubrious
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Adjective
lamentation
xx/x
Noun
hymn
/
Noun
ditty
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Noun
lullaby
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Noun
elegiac
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Noun
anthem
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Noun
doleful
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Adjective
funereal
x/xx
Adjective
paean
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Noun
melancholy
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Noun, Adjective
melody
/xx
Noun
keening
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Noun
chorus
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Noun
coda
/x
Noun
droning
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Noun
plaintive
/x
Adjective
somber
/x
Adjective
morose
x/
Adjective
eulogy
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Noun
maudlin
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Noun
sombre
/x
Adjective
melancholic
xx/x
Adjective
sorrowful
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Adjective
riff
/
Noun
doom
/
Noun
lilting
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Noun
drumbeat
/x
Noun
melancholia
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Noun
melodic
x/x
Adjective
plodding
/x
Verb
singsong
/x
Noun
interlude
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Noun
chant
/
Noun, Verb
knell
/
Noun
solemn
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Adjective
staccato
x/x
Noun
waltz
/
Noun
dead march
//
Name, Name
madrigal
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Noun
death march
//
Name, Name
lyric
/x
Noun
legend
/x
Noun
dump
/
Noun
lied
/
Verb
duet
x/
Noun
recitation
xx/x
Noun
strain
/
Noun
processional
x/xx
Noun
carol
/x
Name
lyre
/
Noun
tune
/
Noun
folk song
//
Phrase, Noun
antiphon
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Noun
nocturne
x/
Noun
fugue
/
Noun
canto
/x
Noun
wedding march
/x/
Name, Name
burden
/x
Noun
songbook
/x
Noun
serenade
xx/
Noun
music
/x
Noun
fading
/x
Noun
measure
/x
Noun
verse
/
Noun
ground
/
Noun
slow
/
Adjective
stave
/
Noun
vocal
/x
Adjective
idyll
/x
Noun
long
/
Adjective
dance
/
Noun
ragtime
/x
Noun
tone
/
Noun
sequence
/x
Noun
rhapsody
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Noun
cadence
/x
Noun
minstrel
/x
Noun
tango
/x
Noun
reverberates
x/xx
Verb
funeral
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Adjective
akan
x/
Adjective
tolled
/
Verb
sunrise
/x
Noun
sung
/
Verb
veterans
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Noun
maddened
/x
Verb
monotonous
x/xx
Adjective
ageless
/x
Adjective
bird
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
boisterous
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Adjective
calypso
x/x
Noun, Verb
choir
/x
Noun, Verb
choral
/x
Adjective, Noun
deathless
/x
Adjective
flamenco
x/x
Noun, Verb
gong
/
Noun, Verb
gregorian
x/xx
Adjective, Name
harp
/
Noun, Verb
incantation
x//x
Noun
litany
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Noun
moan
/
Noun, Verb
plaint
/
Noun
recitative
xxxx
Noun, Adjective
refrain
x/
Verb, Noun
unaccompanied
xx/xx
Adjective
headlines
/x
Noun
idiomatic
xxx/x
Adjective, Noun
tell
/
Verb, Noun
expression
x/x
Noun
milestone
/x
Noun, Verb
maypole
/x
Noun, Verb
cloth
/
Noun
oh
/
Noun, Verb
pidgin
/x
Noun
girly
/x
Adjective, Noun
bundle
/x
Noun, Verb
literally
/xxx
Adverb
stovepipe
/x
Noun, Verb