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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