funest

Nov. 18th, 2011 07:19 am
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funest (FYOO-nest) - adj., causing or foreboding death; lamentable, calamitous, dire.


So not fun but funerary -- be sure to pronounce that glide after the F to signal this. Borrowed in the 1550s from French funeste, from Latin fūnestus, derivative of fūnus, funeral, death.

Have a happy Friday.

---L.

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