funest

[fyoo-nest]

adjective

1. boding or causing evil or death; fatal; disastrous.

Word History and Origins

Origin of funest¹

1645–55; < French funeste < Latin fūnestus, derivative of fūnus funeral, death

Example Sentences

“Wish we all could be there. It’s one of the biggest and funest events in New York.”

From Washington Times

The critic R. P. Blackmur listed nineteen words that Stevens had fished from obscurity, including “fubbed,” “gobbet,” “diaphanes,” “pannicles,” “carked,” “rapey,” “cantilena,” “fiscs,” “phylactery,” “princox,” and “funest.”

From The New Yorker

“I’m here because I wanted to take my research on plants and communicate that to as many people as possible in the funest way possible,” Meyer begins.

From Newsweek

Bot after this he created him E. of Bothwell, ane title that hes been funest and unluckie to all the three possessors of it, viz., the Ramsay, Hepburn, and Stewart, and which the Ramsay bruiked shorter then any of the other two.

From Project Gutenberg

In the adoption of this word 'funest' into the English language by 'apocope' of the final 'us', Taylor is supported by 'honest' and 'modest;' but then the necessity of pronouncing funest should have excluded it, the superlative final being an objection to all of them, though outweighed in the others.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• amusing 
• enjoyable 
• entertaining 
• lively 
• pleasant