1. Fâcheux. Sort funeste.
2. Nuisible. Décision funeste.
ETYM AS. bealoful. Related to Bale misery.
1. Deadly or sinister; SYN. baneful.
2. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; SYN. forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening, ugly.
Exceedingly harmful; SYN. deadly, pernicious, pestilent.
1. (Of a disease) Having a rapid course and violent effect.
2. (Theology) Involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; SYN. mortal.
3. Causing or capable of causing death; SYN. deathly, mortal.
4. Extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; SYN. venomous, virulent.
5. Of an instrument of certain death; SYN. lethal.
ETYM Latin funereus, from fentus a funeral.
Suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; SYN. sepulchral.
ETYM Latin lugubris, from lugere to mourn; cf. Greek lygros sad, Skr. ruj to break.
Excessively mournful.
Mournful; dismal.