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funest

[ fyoo-nest ]

adjective

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


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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of funest1

1645–55; < French funeste < Latin ´ÚÅ«²Ô±ð²õ³Ù³Ü²õ, derivative of ´ÚÅ«²Ô³Ü²õ funeral, death
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“Wish we all could be there. It’s one of the biggest and funest events in New York.â€

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.â€

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“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.

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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.

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A common reader would pronounce it 'funest,' and perhaps mistake it for 'funniest.'

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