Meaning of funest | Babel Free

Definitions

Causing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable.

archaic

Examples

“I do assure you, there is nothing I have⟳ a greater scorn and indignation against, than these wretched scoffers; and I look⟳ upon our neglect⟳ of severely punishing them as an high defect in our politics, and a forerunner of something very funest.”

“Scarce had this unhappy Nation recover'd these funest disasters, when the abomination of Play-houses rose up in this land⟳: From hence hath an inundation of Obscenity flow'd from the Court and overspread the Kingdom.”

“c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor …excepting only some Popes have⟳ be'en remarked by their own⟳ histories for funest and direful deaths.”

“Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.”

“Flora, initially an ivory-pale, dark-haired funest beauty, whom the author transformed just in time into a third bromidic dummy with a dun bun.”

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