funeral
nounHow to pronounce funeral:
Definition of funeral:
- funeral (noun):
- a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated
- a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated.
Synonyms for funeral:
burial
burying
ceremonial
ceremonial occasion
ceremony
committal
cremation
embalmment
entombment
inhumation
interment
interring
inurnment
laying to rest
obsequies
obsequy
observance
reburial
reinterment
sepulture
sky burial
Antonyms for funeral:
baptism
christening
disinterment
exhumation
unearthing
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- unruly
- smorgasbord
- Avasa
- progeny
- profession
- masonry
- counterpane
- recollect
- encumbered
- cross-tining
- underbrush
- Gracelyn
- describing
- Eveleen
- tranquillise
- velouette
- foramen
- lunacy
- harangued
- guzzler
- Bhoodevi
- bludgeon
- unity
- bijective
- alarums
- wavelength
- palindrome
- esurient
- displaces
- piccolo
- inversion
- dominion
- stringendo
- forbearance
- work-sharing
- defecate
- sentences
- divinely
- underdone
- omelette
- machete
- lumbering
- bullion
- overfish
- mutinous
- contumely
- chillier
- blatherskite
- recounted
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