different between funest vs tunest

English

Etymology

From French funeste, from Latin f?nestus, from f?nus (“funeral; death”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fju??n?st/

Adjective

funest (comparative more funest, superlative most funest)

1. (now rare) Causing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable.
   • 1663 Sept 17th, John Evelyn in a letter to Dr. Pierce, published 1863 in Diary and correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S., volume 3, page 142:

     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.

   • 1716 Nov 7th, quoted from 1742, probably Alexander Pope, God's Revenge Against Punning, from Miscellanies, 3rd volume, page 226:

     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.

   • 1854, Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

     …excepting only some Popes have be'en remarked by their own histories for funest and direful deaths.

   • 1922 (first published 1923-09-07), Wallace Stevens, Of the Manner of Addressing Clouds, from collection Harmonium:

     Funest philosophers and ponderers,
     Their evocations are the speech of clouds.

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 264:

     Flora, initially an ivory-pale, dark-haired funest beauty, whom the author transformed just in time into a third bromidic dummy with a dun bun.

Catalan

Adjective

funest (feminine funesta, masculine plural funests or funestos, feminine plural funestes)

1. funest

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French funeste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy?n?st/
• Hyphenation: fu?nest
• Rhymes: -?st

Adjective

funest (comparative funester, superlative meest funest or funestst)

1. funest, disastrous, catastrophic, fatal

Inflection

Romanian

Etymology

From French funeste, from Latin funestus.

Adjective

funest m or n (feminine singular funest?, masculine plural fune?ti, feminine and neuter plural funeste)

1. fatal, deadly

Declension

English

Etymology

tune +? -est

Verb

tunest

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of tune

German

Pronunciation

Verb

tunest

1. second-person singular subjunctive I of tunen