different between joyless vs funereal

English

From joy +? -less.

joyless (comparative more joyless, superlative most joyless)

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

funereal (comparative more funereal, superlative most funereal)

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.
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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