Characterized by gloom, mourning, or a funeral-like atmosphere; darkly somber.
From Latin 'funebris' (funereal) plus the suffix '-ous' (full of). An archaic or literary variant of 'funereal.'
The suffix '-ous' (full of) turns 'funebr-' into 'funebrious'—it sounds even more dramatically gloomy than 'funereal.' Victorian writers loved this word!
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