'Disastrously' definitions:
Definition of 'disastrously'
From: WordNet
adverb
In a disastrous manner; "the real value of the trust capital may be disastrously less than when the trust began"
Definition of 'Disastrously'
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]