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English
Etymology
From Latin nefastus.
Adjective
nefastous (comparative more nefastous, superlative most nefastous)
- (rare) inauspicious, disastrous, ill-omened
- Synonyms: foreboding, portentous; see also Thesaurus:ominous
1654, Francis Rous, Zachary Bogan, Archaelogiae Atticae libri septem: Seaven books of the Attick antiquities, book 4, chapter 8, page 185:THE time of the yeare which they deemed most lucky to Marry in (for almost every Nation has had their nefastous time and dayes) was the first Moneth of the Winter.