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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISASTROUS, a.
1. Unlucky; unfortunate; calamitous; occasioning loss or injury; as, the day was disastrous; the battle proved disastrous; their fate was disastrous.
Fly the pursuit of my disastrous love.
2. Gloomy; dismal; threatening disaster.
The moon, in dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1594 1. attended by or causing suffering or disaster ; calamitous <a disastrous flood> 2. terrible, horrendous <a disastrous score> • disastrously adverb

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disastrous 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. A disastrous event has extremely bad consequences and effects. ...the recent, disastrous earthquake... = catastrophic ADJ • disastrously The vegetable harvest is disastrously behind schedule... ADV: ADV adj/prep, ADV with v 2. If you describe something as disastrous, you mean that it was very unsuccessful. ...their disastrous performance in the general election of 1906. ADJ • disastrously ...the company's disastrously timed venture into property development. ADV: ADV adj, ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Calamitous, unfortunate, unlucky, hapless, adverse, ruinous, destructive, untoward, unprosperous, ill-fated, ill-starred. 2. Foreboding, threatening, gloomy, dismal, portentous, portending disaster.

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