Definition of Infaust

1. a. Not favorable; unlucky; unpropitious; sinister.

Definition of Infaust

1. Adjective. (obsolete) unlucky; unpropitious; sinister ¹

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Definition of Infaust

1. unlucky [adj] - See also: unlucky

Medical Definition of Infaust

1. Unfavourable. Origin: L. Infaustus = unlucky This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Infaust

infare
infares
infaring
infashionable
infatuate
infatuated
infatuates
infatuating
infatuation
infatuations
infauna
infaunae
infaunal
infaunas
infaunt
infaust (current term)
infausting
infeasibilities
infeasibility
infeasible
infeasibleness
infect
infectability
infectable
infectant
infected
infected abortion
infectee
infectees
infecter

Literary usage of Infaust

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bookman (1899)
"... word infaust to poets!—will I fear, far outweigh them. A few passages have been omitted, whose space is sufficiently well supplied by asterisks. ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
"I will not say that he might not hunger for praise, but I am quite sure that he did not care a button foi pudding. Nevertheless, it was an infaust and ..."

3. My Study Windows by James Russell Lowell (1876)
"Some malign constellation (Taurus, perhaps, whose infaust aspect may be supposed to preside over the makers of bulls and blunders) seems to have been in ..."

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