MEANING
Relating to funerals, burial, or commemorations of the dead.
Use it for
Death-related objects, historical burial practice, memorial art.Classify an object by purpose rather than by an assumed mood.
Words that belong together
- funerary urn
- funerary monument
- funerary rites
On the page
The museum displayed funerary masks beside household pottery.
A funerary inscription ran around the base of the statue.
They mistook the funerary chapel for a gatehouse.
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Word forms
- Base
- funerary
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Often used for objects, art, or practices; funerary does not inherently mean frightening or sorrowful in appearance. Non-gradable relational adjective.
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