disastrous

[ dih-zas-truh s, -zah-struh s ]

/ dɪˈzæs trəs, -ˈzɑ strəs /

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adjective

causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.

Archaic. foreboding disaster.

Origin of disastrous

1580–90; < Middle French desastreux, Italian disastroso. See disaster, -ous

OTHER WORDS FROM disastrous

dis·as·trous·ly, adverb dis·as·trous·ness, noun non·dis·as·trous, adjective non·dis·as·trous·ly, adverb

non·dis·as·trous·ness, noun pre·dis·as·trous, adjective pre·dis·as·trous·ly, adverb qua·si-dis·as·trous, adjective qua·si-dis·as·trous·ly, adverb un·dis·as·trous, adjective un·dis·as·trous·ly, adverb

Words nearby disastrous

disassociate, disassortative mating, disaster, disaster area, disaster capitalism, disastrous, disavow, disavowal, disband, disbar, disbelief

Example sentences from the Web for disastrously

Almost everything in the Middle East is now being defined along sectarian lines, and disastrously so.

The Sectarian Calamity |Hussein Ibish |May 9, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
What was a surprise was the state of its pension fund, which was disastrously underfunded.

Sorry, Folks: One Way or the Other, You'll Never Be Able to Completely Count on Retirement |Megan McArdle |March 15, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
His fascism bequeathed an example that was disastrously emulated across Europe - and that led in turn to another terrible war.

David Frum's Book Club: The Pursuit of Italy |David Frum |March 17, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
It had worked when Romney contrasted himself with the disastrously right-wing Goldwater in the early sixties.

Mitt Romney’s No More Of a Mystery Than Barack Obama |Lee Siegel |February 9, 2012 |DAILY BEAST

Politically he achieved his aim of revising the map of middle Europe so disastrously drawn at Yalta.

Vaclav Havel Was Torn Between Socialism and Freedom |Geoffrey Robertson |December 22, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
The struggle had no doubt been gallant, but the kindly, polished gentleman had been disastrously beaten.

Harding of Allenwood |Harold Bindloss
Will the opportunity be taken for testing methods which have been so disastrously absent hitherto from our public school system?

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 29, 1919 |Various
A recent attempt to introduce Hindu labor in the Treadwell mines resulted as disastrously.

Alaska |Ella Higginson
Poor Sir Arthur would lose his bill as well as his sweetheart, now that Camelia had meddled so disastrously.

The Confounding of Camelia |Anne Douglas Sedgwick
How disastrously for the royalists it ended all readers of history know.

Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) |Charles Morris

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disastrous

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disastrous

adjective

Origin of disastrous

OTHER WORDS FROM disastrous

Words nearby disastrous

Words related to disastrously

Example sentences from the Web for disastrously