About The Word Disastrous
Learn about the word Disastrous to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Disastrous definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Disastrous
| Disastrous Definition And Meaning |
|---|
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.
|
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Wasting ‐ a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse [n]…
- Culicidae ‐ mosquitoes
- Hydroxyacetic acid ‐ a translucent crystalline compound found in sugar cane and sugar…
- Vesuvius ‐ a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast; erupted…
- Starwort ‐ low-growing north temperate herb having small white star-shaped…
- Fraser fir ‐ small fast-growing but short-lived fir of southern Alleghenies…
- Inexorability ‐ mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or…
- Anti-semitic ‐ discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion [adj]…
- Katharobe ‐ an organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organic…
- Synagrops ‐ a genus of…