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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
funeral (adjective)
1.
of, relating to, or constituting a funeral
2.
- funereal
funeral (noun)
1.
the observances held for a dead person usually before burial or cremation
2.
chiefly dialect a funeral sermon
3.
a funeral procession
4.
an end of something's existence
5.
a matter of concern to one - worry if you flunk, it's your funeral
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
funeral (adjective)
expressing or suggesting mourning
SYNONIMS:
aching, agonized, anguished, bemoaning, bewailing, bitter, deploring, doleful, dolesome, dolorous, funeral, grieving, heartbroken, lamentable, lugubrious, plaintive, plangent, regretful, rueful, sorrowful, sorry, wailing, weeping, woeful
RELATED WORDS:
dirgelike, elegiac ( elegiacal), melancholy; dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, dispirited, downcast, downhearted, heartsick, heartsore, inconsolable, tearful; brokenhearted, careworn, crestfallen, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, gloomy, glum, low-spirited, miserable, sad, triste, unhappy, woebegone; bawling, crying, groaning, howling, keening, moaning, yammering; bleeding, suffering; black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, desolate, dismal, dreary, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray ( grey), joyless, low, miserable, moody, morbid, morose, pathetic, pessimistic, piteous, saturnine, somber ( sombre), sullen, wretched
NEAR ANTONYMS:
delighted, exulting, glorying, happy, joyful, rejoicing, triumphant; bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery; laughing, smiling; blissful, blithe, blithesome, buoyant, jocund, jolly, joyous, lighthearted, merry, mirthful; encouraging, hopeful, optimistic; ecstatic, elated, euphoric, exhilarated, giddy, heady, rapturous, rhapsodic ( rhapsodical)

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