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disastrous

[dih-zas-truhs, -zah-struhs]

adjective

  1. causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous.

    The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.

  2. Archaic.Ģżforeboding disaster.



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Other 51³Ō¹Ļ Forms

  • disastrously adverb
  • disastrousness noun
  • nondisastrous adjective
  • nondisastrously adverb
  • nondisastrousness noun
  • predisastrous adjective
  • predisastrously adverb
  • quasi-disastrous adjective
  • quasi-disastrously adverb
  • undisastrous adjective
  • undisastrously adverb
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51³Ō¹Ļ History and Origins

Origin of disastrous1

1580–90; < Middle French desastreux, Italian disastroso. See disaster, -ous
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As I have been chronicling and trying to make better sense of Donald Trump’s disastrous return to power, there is one image that keeps haunting me.

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The Tories also suffered a disastrous set of local election results last month, losing hundreds of council seats to Nigel Farage's party.

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This would be disastrous for millions of Americans and would threaten to eradicate end-of-life care as we know it.

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The former president alleged that the investigation into his mental acuity and use of an autopen was a ruse to distract from the "disastrous legislation" Republicans hope to push through Congress.

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Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has come under heavy scrutiny for deleting the text messages she sent during the region’s disastrous January firestorms.

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