funest
/fjuːˈnɛst/
funest adjective: causing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable.
Adjective
funest (comparative more funest, superlative most funest)
- Causing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable.
- 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.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
- 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.1716 Nov 7th, quoted from 1742, probably Alexander Pope, God's Revenge Against Punning, from Miscellanies, 3rd volume, page 226
funest meaning in Tamil
funest in Tamil
- உயிருக்குக் கேடு விளைக்கும், அழிவு விளைக்கும், நாசம் தரும்
Forms of funest
| comparative | more funest |
|---|---|
| superlative | most funest |
Origin of funest
From French funeste, from Latin fūnestus, from fūnus (“funeral; death”).
Words that rhyme with funest
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- attest
- guest
- quest
- bequest
- distressed
- pest
- prest
- request
- revest
- west
- wrest
- zest
- contest
- depressed
- dressed
- gest
- impressed
- jest
- suggest
- acid test
- best
- celeste
- divest
- ingest
- molest
- North West
- northwest
- possessed
- pressed
- professed
- southwest
- -cest
- addressed
- behest
- compressed
- congest
- detest
- fest
- infest
- lest
- obsessed
- pretest
- processed
- repressed
- rest.
- stressed
- tressed
- unrest
Questions about funest
- What does funest mean?
- Funest means causing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable.
- What is funest in Tamil?
- Funest in Tamil is உயிருக்குக் கேடு விளைக்கும், அழிவு விளைக்கும், நாசம் தரும். See Funest meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is funest?
- Funest is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce funest?
- Funest is pronounced /fjuːˈnɛst/.
Words near funest in the dictionary
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