different between dreary vs funereal

English

Etymology

From Middle English drery, from Old English dr?ori? (“sad”), from Proto-Germanic *dreuzagaz (“bloody”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?rews- (“to break, break off, crumble”), equivalent to drear +? -y. Cognate with Dutch treurig (“sad, gloomy”), Low German trurig (“sad”), German traurig (“sad, sorrowful, mournful”), Old Norse dreyrigr (“bloody”). Related to Old English dr?or (“blood, falling blood”), Old English drysmian (“to become gloomy”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d???i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d????i/
• Rhymes: -???i, -??i

Adjective

dreary (comparative drearier or more dreary, superlative dreariest or most dreary)

1. Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.

   It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.

   Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary...
2. (obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.

Derived terms

• drear
• drearihead
• drearihood
• drearily
• dreariment
• dreariness
• drearisome

Translations

Anagrams

• Ardrey, Drayer, yarder, yarred

English

Alternative forms

• funeral (uncommon)

Etymology

From Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fju??n????.?l/

Adjective

funereal (comparative more funereal, superlative most funereal)

1. Of or relating to a funeral.
   • 2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 474:

     Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god.

2. Similar to a funeral in mood; dignified or solemn.
   • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 6:

     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.

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