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Plaintive vs Funereal - What's the difference?

plaintive | funereal | Related terms |

Plaintive is a related term of funereal.


As adjectives the difference between plaintive and funereal

is that plaintive is sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic while funereal is of or relating to a funeral.

plaintive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Sounding sorrowful, mournful or melancholic.

    • Related terms

    * plaint * plaintiff

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    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."}}