Synonyms of funereal

funereal

adjective

fyu̇-ˈnir-ē-əl 

as in somber

causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer

shivered with cold in the dark and funereal Victorian mansion

Synonyms & Similar Words

• somber
• bleak
• depressing
• dark
• depressive
• solemn
• lonely
• darkening
• desolate
• morbid
• sombre
• murky
• gray
• sepulchral
• lonesome
• grey
• cold
• morose
• lugubrious
• black
• elegiac
• blue
• cheerless
• gloomy
• miserable
• depressed
• disconsolate
• sullen
• wretched
• chill
• glum
• sad
• melancholy
• oppressive
• saturnine
• drear
• dismal
• dreary
• forlorn
• comfortless
• dire
• cloudy
• tenebrous
• mournful
• melancholic
• godforsaken
• dreich
• elegiacal
• plutonian
• sunless
• mirthless
• Cimmerian
• unhappy
• woebegone
• grim
• desperate
• tenebrific
• dull
• dejected
• dim
• distressful
• inconsolable
• plaintive
• hangdog
• dispiriting
• hopeless
• despondent
• sorrowful
• distressing
• disheartening
• woeful
• negative
• menacing
• discouraging
• droopy
• discomfiting
• dismaying
• upsetting
• low
• pessimistic
• lamentable
• dour
• drab
• down
• colorless
• threatening
• lowering
• louring
• lowery
• loury

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• festive
• cheerful
• friendly
• bright
• gay
• comforting
• cheery
• cordial
• joyous
• sunshiny
• joyful
• buoyant
• gay
• merry
• jolly
• blithe
• mirthful
• optimistic
• hopeful
• heartwarming
• cheering
• encouraging
• blithesome
• jocund
• lighthearted
• lightsome

Examples of funereal in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Based on true events, director Maggie Betts' (The Novitiate) latest drama retells a real-life legal case that exposed massive inequality in funereal care and the way Black communities were being regularly overcharged. —Matt Kamen, WIRED, 26 July 2024

But among the watchdog groups that monitored the meeting closely, the tone was funereal. —Kate Graham-Shaw, Scientific American, 9 Aug. 2024

As the child follows a shrouded woman into the home, a swell of dark keyboards gives the morose track a funereal feel while viewers follow the child’s progress and the track adopts a slightly lighter feel midway through. —Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 6 Aug. 2024

And in her scenes in this episode, with fabulous black, almost funereal ensembles, she’s never looked as great. —Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2024