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   Dis·as·trous

   /dəˈzastrəs/

   

   adjective

   • 1. causing great damage: "a disastrous fire swept through the museum"
   • ▪ highly unsuccessful: "the team made a disastrous start to the season"

   Word Origin late 16th century (in the sense ‘ill-fated’): from French désastreux, from Italian disastroso, from disastro ‘disaster’.

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   What does disastrous mean?

   • very bad, harmful or unsuccessful synonym catastrophic, devastating Lowering interest rates could have disastrous consequences for the economy. It was a disastrous start to the season for the team. Definition of disastrous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

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   What is a disastrous event?

   • A disastrous event has extremely bad consequences and effects. ...the recent, disastrous earthquake. The vegetable harvest is disastrously behind schedule. If you describe something as disastrous, you mean that it was very unsuccessful. ...after their disastrous performance in the election.

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   How do you use disastrous in a sentence?

   • We use disastrous to talk about things that cause a lot of damage. Some collocations with disastrous are disastrous consequences, disastrous fire, disastrous flood, disastrous event, disastrous day, disastrous situation, disastrous experience, and disastrous result. “The storm was disastrous. It caused millions of dollars in damages.”

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   What does disaster mean?

   • By surface analysis, disaster + -ous . disastrous ( comparative more disastrous, superlative most disastrous) Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous. Foreboding disaster; ill-omened. The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

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   3 days ago · Something that is disastrous has extremely bad consequences and effects or is very unsuccessful.

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   extremely bad: disastrous consequences. a disastrous week. (Definition of disastrous from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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   • — disastrously

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   disastrous /dɪˈzæstrəs/ Brit /dɪˈzɑːstrəs/ adjective

   disastrous

   /dɪˈzæstrəs/ Brit /dɪˈzɑːstrəs/

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   adverb

   •a disastrously bad choice/idea

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   Something that is disastrous has extremely bad consequences and effects or is very unsuccessful.

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   5 days ago · disastrous ( comparative more disastrous, superlative most disastrous) Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous. Foreboding disaster; ill-omened.