Disastrous : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Disastrous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Disastrous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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" Synonym(s): black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Disastrous \Disas"trous\, a. [Cf. F. d[82]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. -- {Disas"trously}, adv. -- {Disas"trousness}, n.