Definition of Dirgeful

1. a. Funereal; moaning.

Definition of Dirgeful

1. Adjective. having the qualities of a dirge; moaning ¹

2. Adjective. funereal ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dirgeful

1. dirge [adj] - See also: dirge

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dirgeful

direful
direfully
direly
dirempt
dirempted
dirempting
diremption
diremptions
dirempts
direness
direnesses
direption
direr
direst
dirge
dirgeful (current term)
dirgelike
dirges
dirgy
dirham
dirhams
dirhem
dirhems
dirhenium
dirhodium
dirhombicosidodecahedron
dirhombicosidodecahedrons
diribonucleotide
diribonucleotides
dirigation

Literary usage of Dirgeful

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: With a Metrical Translation and Notes Critical by Aeschylus, Benjamin Hall Kennedy (1882)
"700 (659) but, learning a new dirgeful hymn, Priam's old town, I ween, with groanings loud its Paris ill-wived calls, yea, having first a ..."

2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1855)
"... entails “seven years' trouble, but no want;' that the dirgeful singing of children portends a funeral. There is scarcely a sensation but has its meaning ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"And dirgeful, last and first, That presence softly brooding, for an hour, Seemed to the town a trance As of the waves at rest, A jewel smiling there on ..."

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