All funeral synonyms
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F f noun funeral
- burial — A burial is the act or ceremony of putting a dead body into a grave in the ground.
- cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- requiem — Roman Catholic Church. Also called Requiem Mass. the Mass celebrated for the repose of the souls of the dead. a celebration of this Mass. a plainsong setting for this Mass.
- inhumation — to bury; inter.
- interment — the act or ceremony of interring; burial.
- sepulture — the act of placing in a sepulcher or tomb; burial.
- planting — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
- obit — Informal. an obituary.
- services — a service tree, especially Sorbus domestica.
- service — Robert W(illiam) 1874–1958, Canadian writer, born in England.
- memorial — something designed to preserve the memory of a person, event, etc., as a monument or a holiday.
- wake — to become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed by up).
- procession — the act of moving along or proceeding in orderly succession or in a formal and ceremonious manner, as a line of people, animals, vehicles, etc.
- entombment — The placing of a dead body in a tomb; interment.
- exequies — (obsolete) Plural form of exequy.
- last rites — anointing of the sick.
- obsequies — a funeral rite or ceremony.
adjective funeral
- woful — full of woe; wretched; unhappy: a woeful situation.
- lugubrious — mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.