Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Funest \Fu*nest"\, a. [L. funestus, fr. funus a funeral,
   destruction: cf. F. funeste.]
   Lamentable; doleful. [R.] ``Funest and direful deaths.''
   --Coleridge.

         A forerunner of something very funest.   --Evelyn.