infaust

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

infaust (comparative more infaust, superlative most infaust)

1. (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened; unpropitious; sinister
   • 1849, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Caxtons: A Family Picture:

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

   • 1989, François Rabelais, “An Epistle by Pantagruel's Limosin”, in The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais:

     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.

John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “infaust”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• Faustin, faunist, fiaunts, fustian