From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Funereal \Fu*ne"re*al\, adjective [L. funereus, fr. fentus a funeral.] Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn; as, at a funereal pace. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. --Jer. Taylor.
What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. --Longfellow. -- {Fu*ne"re*al*ly}, adverb
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones" [syn: {sepulchral}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "funereal": Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Stygian, black, blackish, bleak, cinerary, clouded, cloudy, dark, dark and gloomy, dark-colored, darkish, darksome, depressing, depressive, dirgelike, disheartening, dismal, doleful, drear, drearisome, dreary, dusk, dusky, epitaphic, exequial, feral, funebrial, funebrious, funebrous, funeral, funerary, gloomful, glooming, gloomy, grave, gray, grievous, grim, ill-lighted, ill-lit, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, mortuary, mournful, necrological, nigrescent, obituary, obsequial, oppressive, overcast, sad, saturnine, sepulchral, sober, solemn, somber, sombrous, sorrowful, stormy, swart, swarthy, triste, unhappy, weariful, wearisome, weary, woeful
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