Funeral and Tearful

Funeral

Funeral adjective - Expressing or suggesting mourning.
Usage example: a slow and heavy funeral song

Tearful and funeral are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tearful" instead an adjective "Funeral".

Nearby Word: funerary

Tearful

Tearful adjective - Given to expressing strong emotion (as sorrow) by readily shedding tears.

Funeral and tearful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Funeral" instead an adjective "Tearful".

Nearby Words: tear, tearing, teary, tearless, tearfully

Both words in one sentence

  • Antagonist in Mourning At the beginning of YuYu Hakusho, one of the things that convinces the stuck-in-limbo Yuusuke to come back to life is his rival Kuwabara's tearful bellows to 'come back and fight him' at Yuusuke's funeral.
  • While his widow does the (understandable) flinching from hearing the salute, Admiral Benson all of a sudden thinks that the funeral is under attack and retaliates in kind with his sidearm and some grenades he carried just in case... while "protecting" the tearful, freaking-out widow.
  • In a twofer example, Otegi's tearful speech at their funeral where he described them as "four Basque patriots" probably was the straw that broke the camel's back and led to the passing of a new law of political parties that illegalized his pro-ETA formation, Batasuna in 2003.
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