Definitions for: 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"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: black, calamitous, fatal, fateful, unfortunate

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