dirgelike
Slow and lamenting
Dirgelike describes something resembling a dirge—a slow, mournful song or piece of music associated with death and funerals.
The word suggests heaviness, solemnity, and grief: The cello's dirgelike tones filled the cathedral.
It often describes music, but extends to anything with that weighted, lamenting quality: His dirgelike voice droned on about the company's failures.
Memorial song of grief
- requiemMass for the deceased
- elegyPoem lamenting the departed
- monodySolo vocal lamentation
- lamentMournful expression of grief
hymn · chant · intoning · slow · droning · somber · plaintive · sustained
Service honoring the dead
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- intermentPutting a body underground
- hearseVehicle transporting caskets
- pallbearerFuneral coffin transporter
casket · shroud · coffin · procession · cortege · catafalque · cremation · mausoleum
Exaggeratedly mournful in manner
- gloomyDark and dispiriting
- somberGravely serious in mood
- dismalDepressingly dark or dull
- bleakDreary and without cheer
morose · doleful · forlorn · dreary · sorrowful · despondent · pensive · brooding
Passionate expression of grief
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- weepingShedding tears audibly
- keeningVocal mourning for dead
wailing · bereavement · anguish · mourner · grieving · sobbing · heartbreak · desolation
Tribute for the dead
- tributeOffering of respect
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- homageExpression of deep respect
elegiac · valedictory · commemorative · epitaph · immortalize · honoring · farewell · adieu
threnody
Memorial song of grief
lament · hymn · chant · intoning · slow · droning · somber · plaintive · sustained · processional
funeral
Service honoring the dead
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- intermentPutting a body underground
- hearseVehicle transporting caskets
pallbearer · casket · shroud · coffin · procession · cortege · catafalque · cremation · mausoleum · graveyard
lugubrious
Exaggeratedly mournful in manner
bleak · morose · doleful · forlorn · dreary · sorrowful · despondent · pensive · brooding · wistful
lamentation
Passionate expression of grief
keening · wailing · bereavement · anguish · mourner · grieving · sobbing · heartbreak · desolation · tears
eulogy
Tribute for the dead
- tributeOffering of respect
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
homage · elegiac · valedictory · commemorative · epitaph · immortalize · honoring · farewell · adieu · obsequies