funest
English edit
Etymology edit
From French funeste, from Latin fūnestus, from fūnus (“funeral; death”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
funest (comparative more funest, superlative most funest)
- (now rare) Causing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable.
- 1663 Sept 17th, John Evelyn in a letter to Dr. Pierce, published 1863 in Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S., volume 3, page 142:
- 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.
- 1716 Nov 7th, quoted from 1742, probably Alexander Pope, God's Revenge Against Punning, from Miscellanies, 3rd volume, page 226:
- 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.
- 1922 (first published 1923-09-07), Wallace Stevens, Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds, from collection Harmonium:
- Funest philosophers and ponderers,
Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
- 1969Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, (Please provide the book title or journal name), Penguin, published 2011, page 264:
- 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.
- 1663 Sept 17th, John Evelyn in a letter to Dr. Pierce, published 1863 in Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S., volume 3, page 142:
Catalan edit
Adjective edit
funest (feminine funesta, masculine plural funests or funestos, feminine plural funestes)
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
funest (comparative funester, superlative meest funest or funestst)
Inflection edit
Inflection of funest | ||||
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uninflected | funest | |||
inflected | funeste | |||
comparative | funester | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | funest | funester | het funestst het funestste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | funeste | funestere | funestste |
n. sing. | funest | funester | funestste | |
plural | funeste | funestere | funestste | |
definite | funeste | funestere | funestste | |
partitive | funests | funesters | — |
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French funeste, from Latin funestus.
Adjective edit
funest m or n (feminine singular funestă, masculine plural funești, feminine and neuter plural funeste)
Declension edit
Declension of funest
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | funest | funestă | funești | funeste | ||
definite | funestul | funesta | funeștii | funestele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | funest | funeste | funești | funeste | ||
definite | funestului | funestei | funeștilor | funestelor |