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Funfest vs Funest - What's the difference?

funfest | funest |

As a noun funfest

is a fun event.

As an adjective funest is

causing death or disaster; fatal, catastrophic; deplorable, lamentable.

funfest

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal, US) A fun event.

    • funest

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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), :
    • 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.
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