Desolate vs Funereal - What's the difference?
desolate | funereal | Related terms |
Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
* Bible, Jer. ix. 11
* Tennyson
Barren and lifeless.
Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
Dismal or dreary.
Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
* Keble
To deprive of inhabitants.
To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
To abandon or forsake something.
To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
Of or relating to a funeral.
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* 2000 , (Goerge RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 474:
Similar to a funeral, such as dignified or solemn.
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Desolate is a related term of funereal.
As adjectives the difference between desolate and funereal
is that desolate is deserted and devoid of inhabitants while funereal is of or relating to a funeral.As a verb desolate
is to deprive of inhabitants.desolate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a desolate''' isle; a '''desolate''' wilderness; a '''desolate house
- I will make Jerusalem a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate , without an inhabitant.
- And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among.
- desolate altars
- He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
- voice of the poor and desolate
Verb
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
- Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god.
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