Meaning & use
funest
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Causing or portending death or disaster; disastrous or fatal.
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The oracle's funest prophecy foretold the fall of the kingdom.
Critics called the treaty a funest mistake that hastened the war.
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A rare literary word borrowed from French "funeste," itself from Latin "funestus" (deadly); it appears almost exclusively in older or highly formal English writing.
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