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Desolate vs Funereal - What's the difference?

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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)
  • Deserted and devoid of inhabitants.
  • a desolate''' isle; a '''desolate''' wilderness; a '''desolate house
  • * Bible, Jer. ix. 11
  • I will make Jerusalem a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate , without an inhabitant.
  • * Tennyson
  • And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among.
  • Barren and lifeless.
  • Made unfit for habitation or use; laid waste; neglected; destroyed.
  • desolate altars
  • Dismal or dreary.
  • Sad, forlorn and hopeless.
  • He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
  • * Keble
  • voice of the poor and desolate

    Verb

    (desolat)
  • To deprive of inhabitants.
  • To devastate or lay waste somewhere.
  • To abandon or forsake something.
  • To make someone sad, forlorn and hopeless.
  • funereal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to a funeral.
  • * , Episode 12:
  • 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.
  • * 2000 , (Goerge RR 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, such as dignified or solemn.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , page=171 , year=1900 , author=William Beckford , title=The History of the Caliph Vathek citation , passage="A funereal gloom prevailed over the whole scene."}}