Modifying Another Word

• potentially: To offset this potentially disastrous dynamic, allow for dedicated time for the team members to talk openly about how they interact.

• predictably: Predictably Disastrous Results The results have been predictably disastrous.

• economically: This is economically disastrous - Poland is the only country in Europe that fairs worse, according to Liz Smith of the TUC.

• environmentally: It is not economically efficient nor socially equitable to have such a divergence of circumstances and it is environmentally disastrous.

• financially: For several years Britain was part of a breakaway, and financially disastrous, ' Gallic empire ' .

• equally: As I was loading my tackle into the car, I began chatting to two other anglers whose day had been equally disastrous.

Preposition: for

• farmer: Friends of the Earth is concerned that the additional buyer power that a merger would create would be disastrous for farmers and consumer choice.

• people: Organized " people power " against proposals that would have been disastrous for the people.

• business: That is usually disastrous for the business still operated by the remaining partners!

• industry: This was disastrous for the cinema industry and, along with it, evening bus travel.

Modifies a noun

• consequence: Ignoring the risk of injuries may have disastrous consequences for some people with epilepsy.

• defeat: Scottish invasion of England meets with disastrous defeat at Worcester.

• flooding: AUGUST August saw disastrous flooding all around the world.

• slump: In retrospect, it should have been easy to forecast the disastrous slump in the numbers of candidates taking GCE Mathematics examinations in June.

• flood: In the disastrous floods of 1999, for example, many of the towns along the Severn River were severely flooded.

• mistake: Also the sight of Lance Armstrongs near disastrous mistake in 2003!

Used with adjective complement

• prove: Frank Field, a former welfare minister, said building a new system would prove disastrous.

• become: The number of fires increased, and became more disastrous to life and property.

• seem: All this might not seem quite so disastrous if it were not by now well established that SNH is an exceptionally incompetent land manager.

Preposition: in

• term: The consequences of security breaches can be disastrous in terms of the public profile and the operation of your business.