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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [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" [syn: {black}, {calamitous}, {fatal}, {fateful}]
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