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disastrous |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Disastrous \Dis*as"trous\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]sastreux. See {Disaster}.] 1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. [Obs.] The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton. 2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as a disastrous day a disastrous termination of an undertaking. Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. --Shak. -- {Dis*as"trous*ly}, adv -- {Dis*as"trous*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: disastrous adj : (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" [syn: {black}, {calamitous}, {fatal}, {fateful}]
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