disastrous
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3.5
- adjective
- /dɪˈzæstrəs/
:
desastroso
- The hurricane had disastrous effects on the coastal towns, leaving hundreds homeless.
- disastrous consequences
- disastrous effects
- disastrous results
I worried that that it would be a disastrous move.
- I worried that that it would be a disastrous move.
- So I think Michael Cohen's testimony was disastrous for Tish James.
- Convicted felon Donald Trump gave a disastrous interview yesterday.
- What a humongous, disastrous impact that technology has.
- The second thing is the really disastrous consequences of life on social media.
- I thought this week would be more disastrous and more difficult than it actually was.
- And so we tried it and it was disastrous.
- All right, this is going to be potentially disastrous.
- It's I'm sorry, cooperation breaks down, the results can be disastrous.
- There are reports at the time about that disastrous truck stop and and the deaths.
Examples
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I thought this week would be more disastrous and more difficult than it actually was.
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I've been married four times, each one more disastrous than the one before it.
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I worried that that it would be a disastrous move.
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Can you explain why that is such a disastrous thing for our society?
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Failure to do so would be disastrous for both of us.
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How did they miss critical details or make decisions with such disastrous results?
Academic text (2011) -
But as you know, that moment was lost with disastrous consequences for the King.
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The second thing is the really disastrous consequences of life on social media.
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America attempted to launch her satellite with disastrous results.
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It was a disastrous failure of workforce planning.
Synonyms
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1.0
Very bad or unpleasant and often serious
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3.4
Extremely sad, often because of death or a disaster
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5.1
Causing very great damage or sadness
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7.0
Causing very great damage or harm
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3.9
Causing very serious harm or ruin
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6.1
Likely to have very bad luck and end badly
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7.0
Causing very serious harm to people or businesses
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7.9
An event that causes great harm or loss
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4.3
A very bad or shocking thing, often a poor story
Causing very large, sudden destruction that changes a place
Antonyms
How Damaging
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Disastrous comes from an old idea that the stars control good or bad luck: it joins dis- ('bad') and astro ('star'), the same part you see in astronomy. So something 'disastrous' was thought to be caused by a 'bad star', which is why it now means an event that brings great damage or failure.