Funeral vs Somber - What's the difference?
funeral | somber |
Related to a ceremony in honor of a deceased person.
A ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person. Often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.
(dated, chiefly, in the plural) A funeral sermon.
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Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
* {{quote-book
, year=2002
, author=Dirk Wittenborn
, title=Fierce People
, passage=My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus .}}
Dark, lacking color or brightness.
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As adjectives the difference between funeral and somber
is that funeral is related to a ceremony in honor of a deceased person while somber is dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.As a noun funeral
is a ceremony to honour and remember a deceased person often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.As a verb somber is
.funeral
English
(wikipedia funeral)Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)- No one likes to go to funerals .
- Mr. Giles Lawrence preached his funerals .
