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nefastous

nefastous adjective: inauspicious, disastrous, ill-omened.

Adjective

nefastous (comparative more nefastous, superlative most nefastous)

  1. (rare) inauspicious, disastrous, ill-omened
    • THE time of the yeare which they deemed most lucky to Marry in (for almost every Nation has had their nefastous time and dayes) was the first Moneth of the Winter.1654, Francis Rous, Zachary Bogan, Archaelogiae Atticae libri septem: Seaven books of the Attick antiquities, book 4, chapter 8, page 185

Synonyms of nefastous

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Forms of nefastous

comparativemore nefastous
superlativemost nefastous

Origin of nefastous

From Latin nefastus.

Questions about nefastous

What does nefastous mean?
Nefastous means inauspicious, disastrous, ill-omened.
What part of speech is nefastous?
Nefastous is an adjective.

Words near nefastous in the dictionary

  1. NEFAs
  2. nefasch
  3. Nefasit
  4. nefast
  5. nefasti
  6. nefastous
  7. nefazadone
  8. nefazodone
  9. nefazodones
  10. nefedovite
  11. nefelometric

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