'Disastrous' definitions:

Definition of 'disastrous'

(from WordNet)
adjective
(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, disastrous, fatal, fateful]

Definition of 'Disastrous'

From: 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]

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