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funest

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6 lettersPronunciation /fjuːˈnɛst/Sorted efnstuStarts with FEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. Fatal, disastrous, or deeply mournful.

Word origin

From French funeste, from Latin fūnestus, from fūnus (“funeral; death”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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