Meaning of DISASTROUS
| Pronunciation: | | di'zastrus
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| | Definition: | | [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" |
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| | Synonyms: | | black, calamitous, fatal, fateful, unfortunate |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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