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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin;
- Example: "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"
- Example: "a calamitous defeat"
- Example: "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"
- Example: "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin
- Example: "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur
- Example: "a fateful error"
[syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Disastrous \Dis*as"trous\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]sastreux. See
   Disaster.]
   1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious;
      ill-boding. [Obs.]
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            The moon
            In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton.
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   2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate;
      calamitous; ill-fated; ending in utter failure or ruin;
      as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an
      undertaking.
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            Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. --Shak.
      -- Dis*as"trous*ly, adv. -- Dis*as"trous*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

disastrous
    adj 1: (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, disastrous,
           fatal, fateful]