disastrously
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5.6
- adverb
- /dɪˈzæstrəsli/
- Napoleon's Egyptian campaign ended disastrously for the French, but that didn't stop Bonaparte from claiming victory.
- most disastrously
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- Choices, like sort of choices I've made that haven't gone disastrously wrong, then no.
- So that that idea was a disastrously bad idea.
- That has gone disastrously at least twice now.
- The brakes feel absolutely disastrously terrible at your first tip in when you first tap them.
Examples
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Medicines are complex products with powerful effects, which can be enormously helpful or disastrously harmful.
Academic text (2016) -
At best, Wistrich concludes, the German bishops were disastrously naive; at worst, they were complicit in genocide.
Academic text (2000) -
That has gone disastrously at least twice now.
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Yes, they failed all right, disastrously so.
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There was something disastrously wrong with his right front leg.
Fiction book (1996) -
The war in Spain had begun disastrously for the French.
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The newest and most advanced Russian model has proven to be disastrously unreliable.
Academic text (2002) -
But most disastrously for Napoleon, the Continental System would draw him into two conflicts that proved ruinous for his empire.
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Military engagements undertaken without a clear strategy for victory can backfire disastrously.
Academic text (2011) -
The company's decision to cut corners could lead disastrously to financial losses.
Synonyms
119
3.5
In a very bad or shocking way
78
1.0
In a way that makes people think less of someone
78
4.1
In a way that causes great sadness or very bad results
39
3.3
In a way that causes harm or makes something worse
26
6.5
In a way that is very bad or not good enough
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4.9
In a way that causes harm
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4.4
Shows that something is very bad, unpleasant, or extreme
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7.2
In a way that causes very great harm or failure
6
8.2
In an extremely bad and obvious way that shocks people
4
7.0
In a very bad way that shows poor quality or failure
3
4.2
In a way that causes harm or damage
3
6.7
In a way that causes great harm or damage
1
7.4
In a very bad or shocking way
1
7.2
In a way that harms people or things
1
4.3
In a way that causes damage or hurts others
1
7.8
In a way that causes a lot of harm or loss
1
9.5
In a way that causes a very large violent change or disaster
1
9.0
In a way that causes harm or damage
1
4.4
In a way that causes harm or bad results
1
8.3
In a way that causes great harm or disaster
1
8.6
In a very great and dramatic way
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7.4
Very suddenly in a way that ends in complete failure
In a way that causes great harm
Antonyms
How Badly
Surface Forms
Morphology
disastrously = disastrous (transparent) = disaster + ous + ly
Standard suffixation: '-ly' converts the adjective 'disastrous' into an adverb meaning 'in a disastrous way'.
Etymology
Disastrously comes from old words dis- 'bad' and aster 'star', because people long ago thought a 'bad star' could bring bad luck. So, disastrously means 'in a way that causes great harm or failure'.