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Meaning of "funest" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FUNEST

funest  [fjuːˈnɛst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FUNEST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Funest is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FUNEST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of funest in the English dictionary

The definition of funest in the dictionary is presaging evil or death; calamitous, deadly; lamentable.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FUNEST


best
bɛst
breast
brɛst
Budapest
ˌbjuːdəˈpɛst
chest
tʃɛst
contest
ˈkɒntɛst
disnest
dɪsˈnɛst
est
ɛst
fest
fɛst
guest
ɡɛst
jest
dʒɛst
nest
nɛst
processed
ˈprəʊsɛst
quest
kwɛst
renest
riːˈnɛst
request
rɪˈkwɛst
rest
rɛst
suggest
səˈdʒɛst
test
tɛst
trapnest
ˈtræpˌnɛst
west
wɛst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FUNEST

funebre
funebrial
funemployment
Funen
funeral
funeral director
funeral home
funeral march
funeral oration
funeral parlour
funeral procession
funeral pyre
funeral service
funerary
funereal
funereally
funfair
funfest
fungal
fungi

WORDS THAT END LIKE FUNEST

bird´s nest
bird´s-nest
crow´s nest
crow´s-nest
dishonest
earnest
feather one´s nest
finest
honest
hornet´s nest
in earnest
love nest
mare´s-nest
soonest
tannest
thinnest
turkey nest
underhonest
unnest
wannest

Synonyms and antonyms of funest in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «funest» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FUNEST

Find out the translation of funest to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of funest from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «funest» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

funest
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

funest
570 millions of speakers

English

funest
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

funest
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

funest
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

funest
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

funest
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

funest
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

funest
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menyeronokkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

funest
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不吉な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

funest
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Paling seneng
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

funest
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

funest
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अतिशय वेगवान
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

funest
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

funest
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

funest
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

funest
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

funest
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

funest
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

funest
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

funest
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

funest
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of funest

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FUNEST»

The term «funest» is quite widely used and occupies the 46.524 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FUNEST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about funest

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FUNEST»

Discover the use of funest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to funest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Close Reading: The Reader
Funest philosophers and ponderers, Their evocations are the speech of clouds. So speech of your processionals returns In the casual evocations of your tread Across the stale, mysterious seasons. . . . The sentence in which funest occurs is  ...
Frank Lentricchia, Andrew DuBois, 2003
2
Wallace Stevens
The use of such a word as funest suggests more abstract considerations, apart from the present instance. The question is whether or not and how much the poet is stretching his words when they are made to carry as much weight as funest ...
Charles Doyle, 2013
3
The literary remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, collected ...
Catholic-Papicolar-polemics-unmerited, sneer.' Ib. p. 381. — excepting only some Popes have been remarked by their own histories for funest and direful deaths. In the adoption of this word ' funest' into the English language by apocope of the ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, 1838
4
Philosophical and Theological Opinions
excepting only some Popes have been remarked by their own histories for funest and direful deaths. In the adoption of this word ' funest' into the English language by apocope of the final us, Taylor is supported by ' honest' and ' modest ;' but ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2001
5
The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Preface. ...
excepting only some Popes have been remarked by their own histories for funest and direful deaths. In the adoption of this word ' funest' into the English language by apocope of the final ?ts, Taylor is supported by ' honest' and ' modest ;' but ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, 1838
6
Selected essays of R.P. Blackmur
So the pomps of the clouds suggests the funeral in funest. The whole thing increases in ambiguity the more it is analyzed, but if the poem is read over after analysis, it will be seen that in the poem the language is perfectly precise. In its own ...
Richard P. Blackmur, Denis Donoghue, 1986
7
ElderSpeak: A Thesaurus or Compendium of Words Related to ...
... epicedian/epicedium/epicede, epitaph, eschatology, escheat, eulogy, evening of life, exequies, exheredate, Extreme Unction, feuillemorte, fey, finifugal, funest, gloming, Gompertz Law, great assize, Hadephobia, Hayflick's limit, hibernacle, ...
James L. Reynolds, MD, 2014
8
Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism
entirely distinct from their more ®funest ̄ counterparts. Indeed, much as philosophers are called ®ponderers, ̄ we have already noted howthe language of the poem«s initial lineisweighted down bya rather ponderous alliteration ong.
Lisa Goldfarb, Bart Eeckhout, 2012
9
Diccionari UB: anglès-català
... bleak winter's day • un dia gris d'hivern 3 (un futur, unes noticies) funest: in 1984 the future was bleak for the mining industry • el 1984 el futur es preveia funest en el camp de la in- dustria minera bleak2 n ZOOL alburn bleary (comp blearier; ...
‎2008
10
NU EVEN NIET.
Al jouw therapeuten moeten zich maar eens samenpakken en een serieuze aanvraag daarvoor samenstellen. Jij hebt zoveel last van je rug, dan is bankhangen funest.FUNEST Luister maar eens naar die mevrouw. Ze moet wel een oplossing ...
Tanja Haenen, Hilla Breuer

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FUNEST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term funest is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Rookie's walk-off hit lifts Braves in 11
"Probably one of the funest times I've had playing baseball," Peterson said. "Dirt all over me, water. We just celebrated really. It was awesome.". «GlobalPost, May 15»
2
Regeringspartijen staan op fors verlies
De normale partijen zien ook wel in dat dat funest voor het land zou zijn. Elke andere samenwerkingsvorm zonder UKIP is waarschijnlijker. «PowNed, May 15»
3
Umphrey's McGee to Offer Free Stream of Second Las Vegas Show
Thanks for making improve prog rocking metal pop the funest shit out there. If you can't dance to it…..sorry bro. its about time April 30, 2015, ... «jambands.com, Apr 15»
4
10th anniversary: Bradley O's Steakhouse preparing to celebrate …
“Starting in January this has been the funest four months since the first four months of 2005,” said Shelly. “I think it's our new direction, focus and ... «Ravalli Republic, Apr 15»
5
Vijf redenen om naar Dutch Comic Con te gaan
Als die ene figurine van Batman je eenmaal in je ogen kijkt, dan kan dat zomaar funest zijn voor de inhoud van je portemonnee. Wij zijn er! «InsideGamer, Mar 15»
6
Myrna Wadsworth Iverson Evans
She was the funest Grandma ever. She was always full of compliments and encouragement. She genuinely loved her husband, family and ... «St George News, Mar 15»
7
Doing the shuffle
The inaugural Garrison Area Shuffleboard on Ice Tournament has been called, “the funest thing this town has ever done,” according to Gerri ... «Aitkin Independent Age, Jan 15»
8
Constantine's Daniel Cerone and David S. Goyer: "We're Digging As …
And yes, as David said, one of the funest things is that there's no code of conduct that he operates by. He's doing the good things that all the ... «Comicbook.com, Nov 14»
9
Gelekte belastingdeals: voor deze mensen zijn de Luxleaks erg pijnlijk
En dat niet alleen. De documenten die online staan zijn vertrouwelijk. Dat is funest voor de reputatie van PwC. Blijkbaar was het mogelijk om al ... «NRC Q, Nov 14»
10
Je tv professioneel laten kalibreren: hoe werkt het en wat kost het?
Elke stap kan funest en erg bepalend zijn. Uiteindelijk heb ik besloten om eea toch terug te sturen en een alternatieve TV aan te schaffen. «Homecinema Magazine, Jul 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Funest [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/funest>. Apr 2024 ».
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