Usually means: Mournful, somber, expressing grief musically.
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  1. dirgeful: Merriam-Webster
  2. dirgeful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dirgeful: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dirgeful: Wiktionary
  5. Dirgeful, dirgeful: Dictionary.com
  6. Dirgeful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. dirgeful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Dirgeful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. dirgeful: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Dirgeful: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. dirgeful: Wordnik

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  1. dirgeful: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dirgeful)

▸ adjective:  having the qualities of a dirge; moaning
▸ adjective:  funereal

Similar:
dirgelike, dirgy, moanful, plaintive, lugubrious, moansome, mournsome, doleful, wailful, dreich, more...

Opposite:
joyful, celebratory, exultant

Types:
dismal, dreary, gloomy, morose, somber, bleak, more...

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Similar:
dirgelike, dirgy, moanful, plaintive, lugubrious, moansome, mournsome, doleful, wailful, dreich, more...

Opposite:
joyful, celebratory, exultant

Types:
dismal, dreary, gloomy, morose, somber, bleak, more...



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