3 definitions found 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.] [1913 Webster] The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. --Shak. -- {Dis*as"trous*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*as"trous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] 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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