infaust

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adjective

Unlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened; unpropitious; sinister.

OriginLatin īnfaustus →
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Meanings

adjectiveinfaust (comparative more infaust, superlative most infaust)

comparative more infaust · superlative most infaust

  1. archaicUnlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened; unpropitious; sinister.

    Nevertheless, it was an infaust and sinister augury for Austin Caxton[.]

    1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons: A Family Picture
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    While we, alas! must still obambulate, Sequacious of the court and courtier's fate : O most infaust who optates there to live! An aulic life no solid joys can give.

    1989, François Rabelais, “An Epistle by Pantagruel's Limosin”, in The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais
  2. raremedicineOf a prognosis: Poor, grim.

Origin

  1. Latinīnfaustus
  2. Englishinfaust

From Latin īnfaustus, from in- (“not”) + faustus (“fortunate, lucky”).

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Chicago

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