presaging evil or death; calamitous; deadly; lamentable
funest in American English
(fjuːˈnest)
adjective
boding or causing evil or death; fatal; disastrous
Word origin
[1645–55; ‹ F funeste ‹ L fūnestus, deriv. of fūnus funeral, death]This word is first recorded in the period 1645–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bulletin, complex, simmer, soup, vortex