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1. (adj.) disastrous
causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous.
Etymology: (1580–90; < MF desastreux, It disastroso. See disaster , -ous)
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1. (adj) black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
"the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"
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1. (adjective) disastrous
causing a very bad result
a disastrous decision; The relationship ended disastrously.
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1. (adj) disastrous
full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding
2. (adj) disastrous
attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking
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Sense: a terrible event, especially one that causes great damage, loss etc
The earthquake was the greatest disaster the country had ever experienced.
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 Afrikaans: noodlottig, rampspoedig, |
 Arabic: كارِثي، مُفْجِع، جالِب لل |
 Bulgarian: бедствен |
 Brazilian: desastroso |
 Czech: katastrofální |
 German: verheerend |
 Danish: katastrofal |
 Greek: καταστροφικός |
 Spanish: desastroso |
 Estonian: katastroofiline |
 Farsi: مصیبت بار؛ فاجعه آمیز |
 Finnish: tuhoisa |
 French: désastreux |
 Hebrew: הַרסָנִי |
 Hindi: अनर्थकारी, भयानक |
 Croatian: katastrofalan |
 Hungarian: szerencsétlen |
 Indonesian: penuh bencana |
 Icelandic: hörmulegur |
 Italian: disastroso |
 Japanese: 災害の |
 Korean: 재해를 일으키는 |
 Lithuanian: pražūtingas |
 Latvian: postošs; nelaimi nesošs |
 Malay: malang |
 Dutch: rampzalig |
 Norwegian: katastrofal, svært ulykke |
 Polish: zgubny |
 Persian: مصیبت بار؛ فاجعه آمیز |
 Pashto: پيښه |
 Portuguese: desastroso |
 Romanian: dezastruos |
 Russian: катастрофический |
 Slovak: katastrofálny |
 Slovenian: nesrečen |
 Serbian: katastrofalan |
 Swedish: ödesdiger, katastrofal |
 Thai: ซึ่งทำให้เกิดความหายนะ |
 Turkish: felâket getiren, feci |
 Taiwanese: 災難性的 |
 Ukrainian: згубний; катастрофічний |
 Urdu: تباہ کن |
 Vietnamese: thuộc tai họa |
 Chinese: 灾难性的 |
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