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  1. Causing or boding death; ill-boding; hence, lamentable; mournful: as, “funest and direful deaths,” Coleridge. [Obsolete or archaic.] Frequent mischiefs and funest accidents they [mushrooms] have produc'd, not only to particular persons, but to whole families. Evelyn, Acetaria, xxxix. I perfectly apprehend the funest and calamitous issue which a few days may produce. Evelyn, To Sir William Coventry.

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  1. = French funeste = Spanish Portuguese Italian funesto, from Latin funestus, causing death, destruction, or calamity, deadly, destructive, calamitous, from funus (funer-), a funeral, a dead body, death, etc.: see funeral.
 

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