funestadj.

Brit.

/fjuːˈnɛst/, U.S.

/fjuˈnɛst/

Forms: 1600s funeste, 1600s– funest.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French funeste; Latin fūnestus.

Etymology: < (i) French funeste causing or portending death or evil (end of the 15th cent. as funyste in Middle French), dreadful (1627; second half of the 14th cent. in Middle French in sense ‘sad, sorrowful’), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin fūnestus of or concerned with death or mourning, funereal, lamentable, grievous, fatal, deadly, (of omens) presaging death, sinister < fūnus funeral, dead body, death (see funeral adj.) + -tus , suffix forming adjectives. Compare earlier funestal adj.Compare Spanish funesto (early 15th cent.), Italian funesto (late 14th cent.).

Now rare.

Causing or portending death or evil; fatal, disastrous; dreadful.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > attended by or causing affliction

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acanthocladous1858

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fraught1966

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > [adjective]

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1636 tr. J. Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin Ariana i. ii. 24 O Daphne! what funest desire [Fr. funeste enuie] Hath made thee thus the light despise?

1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 96 How funest and direfull must my conceptions be, looking upon her prison all hanged with black.

1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 418 This execution was..one of the funeste effects of the war.

1716 A. Pope God's Revenge against Punning 1 Scarce had this Unhappy Nation recovere'd these Funest Disasters.

1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. vi. iv. 512 The most sad, melancholy, dismal, funest, cypressian casualty that can enter the human imagination.

1867 H. W. Longfellow tr. V. da Filicaja To Italy in tr. Dante Divine Comedy (rev. ed.) II. 248/1 Italy! Italy! Thou who 'rt doomed to wear The fatal gift of beauty, and possess The dower funest of infinite wretchedness.

1990 N. Carroll Philos. Horror iii. 116 There are regressive ghoulies underneath Boston, and the unholy Pickman traffics with them in order to find his funest imagery.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	funest
释义	funestadj. Brit. /fjuːˈnɛst/, U.S. /fjuˈnɛst/ Forms: 1600s funeste, 1600s– funest. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French funeste; Latin fūnestus. Etymology: < (i) French funeste causing or portending death or evil (end of the 15th cent. as funyste in Middle French), dreadful (1627; second half of the 14th cent. in Middle French in sense ‘sad, sorrowful’), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin fūnestus of or concerned with death or mourning, funereal, lamentable, grievous, fatal, deadly, (of omens) presaging death, sinister < fūnus funeral, dead body, death (see funeral adj.) + -tus , suffix forming adjectives. Compare earlier funestal adj.Compare Spanish funesto (early 15th cent.), Italian funesto (late 14th cent.). Now rare. Causing or portending death or evil; fatal, disastrous; dreadful. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > attended by or causing affliction eileOE soreOE unselec1050 evilc1175 derfa1225 stourc1275 feeble1297 illa1325 fella1400 unhappya1400 unwealful1412 importunea1425 noisomea1450 shrewd1482 importunable?c1485 importunate1490 funestal1538 nippingc1550 troublesome1552 pinching1563 grievesome1568 afflicting1573 afflictive1576 pressing1591 lacerating1609 funest1636 funestous1641 gravaminous1659 unkind1682 plightful1721 damning1798 acanthocladous1858 damnatory1858 fraught1966 the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > [adjective] awlyc1200 grievousa1300 grilla1300 uglya1300 strongc1300 outrageousa1325 heinousc1374 excessive1393 curseda1400 fella1400 misshapenc1400 rankc1400 monstruousc1425 enorm1481 prodigiousc1487 villainous1489 nefand1490 sceleratea1513 monstrous1531 funestal1538 enormious1545 facinorous1548 flagitious1550 dire1567 bonable1575 felonious1575 bomination1589 unvenial?1589 heathenish1592 enormous1593 villainous1598 nameless1611 pitchy1612 funest1636 funestous1641 scarleta1643 nefandous1649 aversable1663 atrocious1669 frightful1700 flagrant1706 atrocea1734 diabolical1750 unspeakable1831 1636 tr. J. Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin Ariana i. ii. 24 O Daphne! what funest desire [Fr. funeste enuie] Hath made thee thus the light despise? 1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 96 How funest and direfull must my conceptions be, looking upon her prison all hanged with black. 1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 418 This execution was..one of the funeste effects of the war. 1716 A. Pope God's Revenge against Punning 1 Scarce had this Unhappy Nation recovere'd these Funest Disasters. 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund II. vi. iv. 512 The most sad, melancholy, dismal, funest, cypressian casualty that can enter the human imagination. 1867 H. W. Longfellow tr. V. da Filicaja To Italy in tr. Dante Divine Comedy (rev. ed.) II. 248/1 Italy! Italy! Thou who 'rt doomed to wear The fatal gift of beauty, and possess The dower funest of infinite wretchedness. 1990 N. Carroll Philos. Horror iii. 116 There are regressive ghoulies underneath Boston, and the unholy Pickman traffics with them in order to find his funest imagery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1636
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