funereal

Modifies a noun

• pace: The film moves at a funereal pace but is never boring.
• atmosphere: Soon, he is bringing his band back to rehearse, which breaks the funereal atmosphere of the house.
• gloom: The other was the funereal gloom of one of the staff.
• black: But these were the funereal blacks of the Law.
• monument: The nobles alone possessed the right of having seats of honor in churches and in chapels and to erect funereal monuments.
• chant: Depression is acute in The House, a funereal chant drowned in drones of strings.

Modifying Another Word

almost: The songs almost all have a slow, almost funereal, gothique feel to them, setting up an atmosphere of gloom.