funereal

Etymology

From Middle French funerail, from Latin funereus + -al.

adj

1. Of or relating to a funeral.
   Seven were chosen to push the funereal boat to the water, in honor of the seven faces of god. 2000, George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam, published 2011, page 474
2. Similar to or befitting the mood or elements of a funeral: slow; black colors; formal; dignified or solemn.
   A funereal gloom prevailed over the whole scene. 1900, William Beckford, The History of the Caliph Vathek, page 171
   There was something menacing and uncomfortable in the funereal stillness, in the muffled, subtle trickle of distant brooks, and in the crowding green peaks and black-wooded precipices that choked the narrow horizon. 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 6, in The Whisperer in Darkness