Usually means: Resembling a slow, mournful song.
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  1. dirgelike: Merriam-Webster
  2. dirgelike: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dirgelike: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dirgelike: Wordnik
  5. dirgelike: Wiktionary

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▸ adjective:  (music) Resembling a dirge: slow and depressing

Similar:
dirgeful, dirgy, deathlike, lugubrious, drearsome, deathful, grieflike, dour, lutelike, dismal, more...

Opposite:
lively, upbeat, cheerful, joyful, festive

Types:
funereal, mournful, sorrowful, plaintive, doleful, more...

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Similar:
dirgeful, dirgy, deathlike, lugubrious, drearsome, deathful, grieflike, dour, lutelike, dismal, more...

Opposite:
lively, upbeat, cheerful, joyful, festive

Types:
funereal, mournful, sorrowful, plaintive, doleful, more...



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