dirge-like
Slow and lamenting
Dirge-like describes something resembling a dirge—a slow, mournful song or lament for the dead.
Music, speech, or atmosphere can be dirge-like when it carries that same heavy, sorrowful quality: The cello played a dirge-like melody.
The term often suggests something oppressively gloomy or funereal: His dirge-like tone made the announcement feel like a death sentence.
Showing or feeling grief
- funerealGloomily solemn in manner
- somberGravely serious in mood
- lamentMournful expression of grief
- requiemMass for the deceased
threnody · slow · droning · organ · processional · chant · solemn · hymnal
Filled with grief
- melancholicInclined toward reflective sorrow
- grief-strickenOverwhelmed by profound loss
- lamentingExpressing passionate grief
- wailingProlonged mournful crying
keening · despairing · heavy-hearted · bleak · doleful · lugubrious · woeful · anguished
mournful
Showing or feeling grief
requiem · threnody · slow · droning · organ · processional · chant · solemn · hymnal · elegiac
sorrowful
Filled with grief
- melancholicInclined toward reflective sorrow
- grief-strickenOverwhelmed by profound loss
- lamentingExpressing passionate grief
wailing · keening · despairing · heavy-hearted · bleak · doleful · lugubrious · woeful · anguished · bereaved
gloomy
Dark and dispiriting
- oppressiveUnjustly harsh or stifling
- drearyDull and depressing
- leadenOppressively heavy or dull
overcast · gray · cheerless · dark · haunting · brooding · shadowy · dim · murky · sepulchral