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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disastrous \Dis*as"trous\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]sastreux. See
     {Disaster}.]
     1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious;
        ill-boding. [Obs.]
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              The moon
              In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton.
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     2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate;
        calamitous; ill-fated; ending in utter failure or ruin;
        as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an
        undertaking.
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              Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. --Shak.
        -- {Dis*as"trous*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*as"trous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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" [syn: {black}, {calamitous}, {fatal}, {fateful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
  
  

















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