funest

Etymology
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1)  Causing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable.
 * 2) * 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:
 * "en"

- 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.


 * 1) * 1716 Nov 7th, quoted from 1742, probably Alexander Pope, God's Revenge Against Punning, from Miscellanies, 3rd volume, page 226:
 * "en"

- Scarce had this unhappy Nation recover'd these funest disasters, when the abomination of Play-houses rose up in this land: From hence hath an inundation of Obscenity flow'd from the Court and overspread the Kingdom.


 * 1) * c. 1810-1820,, Notes on Jeremy Taylor
 * "en"

- …excepting only some Popes have be'en remarked by their own histories for funest and direful deaths.


 * 1) * 1922 (first published 1923-09-07), Wallace Stevens, Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds, from collection Harmonium:
 * "en"

- Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds.



Etymology
Borrowed from.

Adjective

 * , disastrous,, fatal

Etymology
, from.

Adjective

 * 1) fatal, deadly