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| | ===Etymology=== | | ===Etymology=== |
| - | From {{etyl|la}} {{term|funestus|fūnestus|lang=la}}; [[funeral]]. | + | From {{etyl|fr}} {{term|funeste}}, from {{etyl|la}} {{term|funestus|fūnestus|lang=la}}, from {{term|funus|fūnus|funeral; death}}. |
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| | ===Pronunciation=== | | ===Pronunciation=== |
| - | * {{IPA|/ˈfjuːnɛst/}} | + | * {{IPA|/fjuːˈnɛst/}} |
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| | ===Adjective=== | | ===Adjective=== |
| | {{en-adj}} | | {{en-adj}} |
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| - | # {{obsolete}} [[calamitous]], or [[fatal]] | + | # {{context|now|_|rare}} Causing [[death]] or [[disaster]]; [[fatal]], [[catastrophic]]; [[deplorable]], [[lamentable]]. |
| - | # {{obsolete}} [[lamentable]] | |
| | #* '''1663''' Sept 17th, John Evelyn in a letter to Dr. Pierce, published 1863 in [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eWo0AAAAIAAJ ''Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S.'', volume 3], page 142: | | #* '''1663''' Sept 17th, John Evelyn in a letter to Dr. Pierce, published 1863 in [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eWo0AAAAIAAJ ''Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S.'', volume 3], page 142: |
| | #*: 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'''. | | #*: 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'''. |
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| | #* '''1922''' (first published 1923-09-07), [[w:Wallace Stevens|Wallace Stevens]], ''Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds'', from collection ''[[w:Harmonium (poetry collection)|Harmonium]]'': | | #* '''1922''' (first published 1923-09-07), [[w:Wallace Stevens|Wallace Stevens]], ''Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds'', from collection ''[[w:Harmonium (poetry collection)|Harmonium]]'': |
| | #*: '''Funest''' philosophers and ponderers,<br>Their evocations are the speech of clouds. | | #*: '''Funest''' philosophers and ponderers,<br>Their evocations are the speech of clouds. |
| | + | #*'''1969''', Vladimir Nabokov, ''Ada or Ardor'', Penguin 2011, p. 264: |
| | + | #*:Flora, initially an ivory-pale, dark-haired '''funest''' beauty, whom the author transformed just in time into a third bromidic dummy with a dun bun. |
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| | [[et:funest]] | | [[et:funest]] |
