funeste

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English

Adjective

funeste (comparative more funeste, superlative most funeste)

  1. Alternative form of funest
    • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
      [] her father had dropped hints about his history and belongings which surrounded him in her eyes with a sort of chill and dismal halo. There was something funeste and mysterious even in his beauty; and her spirits faltered and sank in his presence.

French

Adjective

funeste (plural funestes)

  1. baneful, disastrous (causing disaster)
  2. fatal; deadly

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Italian

Adjective

funeste

  1. feminine plural of funesto

Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) fūneste

  1. vocative masculine singular of fūnestus