funereal
Speech parts
1. funereal - Adjective
2. funereal - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful.
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funereal gloom
hollow sepulchral tones
Haynes is typically the straight man, Woods the buffoon, although there’s a wrong-footing intro where Haynes’ Algy tinkles the ivories with untrammelled exuberance, while Woods assumes a funereal deadpan as his butler, Lane.
He represents it also as a funereal bird, a monster of the night, the very abomination of human kind.
Thanks to a committed cast and sharp script, this discomforting funereal farce proves there’s lots to bite into – lox, stock and barrel.
It was often used in tomb paintings and funereal objects to protect the dead in their afterlife.