'Disastrous' definitions:
Definition of 'disastrous'
From: WordNet
adjective
(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]
Definition of 'Disastrous'
From: GCIDE
- Disastrous \Dis*as"trous\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]sastreux. See Disaster.]
- 1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. --Shak. -- {Dis*as"trous*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*as"trous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disastrous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- appalling,
- awful,
- baneful,
- black,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- consuming,
- consumptive,
- convulsive,
- deadly,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- desolating,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- detrimental,
- devastating,
- dire,
- doomful,
- dreadful,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- fratricidal,
- grievous,
- hapless,
- harmful,
- harrowing,
- herky-jerky,
- horrendous,
- horrible,
- horrifying,
- internecine,
- jerky,
- luckless,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- orgasmic,
- paroxysmal,
- ravaging,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- seismic,
- self-destructive,
- spasmodic,
- spastic,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- terrible,
- tragic,
- unfortunate,
- unlucky,
- upheaving,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- wasteful,
- wasting,
- withering,
- wreckful