funest

1. (now rare) Causing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable.Examples: "I do assure you, there is nothing I have a greater scorn and indignation against, than these wretched scoffers; and I look upon our neglect of severely punishing them as an high defect in our politics, and a forerunner of something very funest."; "Scarce had this unhappy Nation recover'd these funest disasters, when the abomination of Play-houses rose up in this land: From hence hath an inundation of Obscenity flow'd from the Court and overspread the Kingdom."; "c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor …excepting only some Popes have be'en remarked by their own histories for funest and direful deaths."archaic