Disastrous

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  • adjective. Accompanied by or causing distress or disaster; calamitous.
  • adjective. Extremely bad; terrible.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Gloomy; dismal; threatening disaster.
  • Ruinous; unfortunate; calamitous; occasioning great distress or injury: as, the day was disastrous; the battle proved disastrous.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding.
  • adjective. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; ending in utter failure or ruin
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
  • adjective. foreboding disaster; ill-omened.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
    • Word Usage
    "While any outcome that puts Salmond and his chums into outright control of the parliament is deplored by many Scots, the word "disastrous" to describe Labour's performance is as unfair as it is inaccurate."
    Equivalent
    unfortunate  
    Form
    disastrously  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Embarrass  decisive  deplorable  devastate  disgraceful  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    appalling  awful  baneful  black  calamitous  
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