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Funereal vs Dolorous - What's the difference?

funereal | dolorous | Related terms |

Funereal is a related term of dolorous.


As adjectives the difference between funereal and dolorous

is that funereal is of or relating to a funeral while dolorous is solemnly or ponderously sad.

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."}}

    dolorous

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Solemnly or ponderously sad.
  • * 1596 , , The Faerie Queene , Book 5, Canto 4:
  • Through dolorous despaire, which she conceyved,
    Into the Sea her selfe did headlong throw,
    Thinking to have her griefe by death bereaved.
  • * 1645 , , "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity", stanza 14:
  • . . . Hell itself will pass away,
    And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
  • * 1859 , , A Tale of Two Cities , ch. 30:
  • From this prison here of horror, whence I every hour tend nearer and nearer to destruction, I send you . . . the assurance of my dolorous and unhappy service.
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  • * 2001 June 24, Stefan Kanfer, " Author, Teacher, Witness," Time :
  • As World War II came to a close, the gaunt and dolorous child was liberated at yet another death camp, Buchenwald.