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funeste

funeste is the alternative form of funest.

Meaning of funest

Adjective

funest (comparative more funest, superlative most funest)

  1. (archaic) 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

Forms of funeste

comparativemore funeste
superlativemost funeste

Questions about funeste

What is funeste the alternative form of?
Funeste is the alternative form of funest.

Words near funeste in the dictionary

  1. funereally
  2. funerial
  3. Funes
  4. Funeses
  5. funest
  6. funeste
  7. Funez
  8. Funezes
  9. funfair
  10. funfairs
  11. funfare

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Adapted from Wiktionary: funeste (page history and authors); funest (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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