fūnestus adj. with comp. funus, causing death, deadly, fatal, destructive, pernicious, calamitous, mournful, dismal: eius securis: templis funestos ignīs inferre: tabes veneni, O.: taxus, O.: scelus, Ph.: funestior dies pugnae: o diem funestum senatui.

—Filled with misfortune, fatal, mournful, sad: capilli, O.: manūs, i. e. of a mourner, O.: familia Fabi morte, in mourning, L.: annales, i. e. lists of the dead, L.: littera, mourning, O.: omen, Pr.: funestum est a forti viro iugulari, funestius ab eo, etc.