About The Word Disastrous
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Disastrous
Disastrous Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Disastrous?
[adj] (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Disastrous: black | calamitous | fatal | fateful | unfortunate Related Terms | Find terms related to Disastrous: appalling | awful | baneful | black | calamitous | cataclysmal | cataclysmic | catastrophic | consuming | consumptive | convulsive | deadly | demolishing | demolitionary | depredatory | desolating | destroying | destructive | detrimental | devastating | dire | doomful | dreadful | fatal | fateful | fratricidal | grievous | hapless | harmful | harrowing | herky-jerky | horrendous | horrible | horrifying | internecine | jerky | luckless | nihilist | nihilistic | orgasmic | paroxysmal | ravaging | ruining | ruinous | seismic | self-destructive | spasmodic | spastic | subversionary | subversive | suicidal | terrible | tragic | unfortunate | unlucky | upheaving | vandalic | vandalish | vandalistic | wasteful | wasting | withering | wreckful See Also | Disastrous In Webster's Dictionary \Dis*as"trous\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]sastreux. See
{Disaster}.]
1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious;
ill-boding. [Obs.]
The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds.
--Milton.
2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate;
calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous
termination of an undertaking.
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. --Shak.
-- {Dis*as"trous*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*as"trous*ness}, n.
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