of the nature of a disaster; causing great harm, damage, etc.; calamitous
Origin of disastrous
French désastreux
This tornado is having disastrous results.
This tornado is having disastrous results.
The definition of disastrous is something that is very harmful or damaging.
An example of something disastrous is a tornado that destroys many homes.
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disastrous
adjective
- Accompanied by or causing distress or disaster; calamitous.
- Extremely bad; terrible: a disastrous report card.
Related Forms:
- dis·as′trous·ly
adverb
- dis·as′trous·ness
noun
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Adjective
(comparative more disastrous, superlative most disastrous)
- of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
- foreboding disaster; ill-omened.
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Sentence Examples
- The war proved disastrous for Venice.
- Economically and socially the crusades had disastrous effects upon the Jews.
- Though a king, Bruce had not yet a kingdom, and his efforts to obtain it were disastrous failures until after the death of Edward I.
- Early in 1877 the disastrous war with Russia followed.
- After the disastrous defeat of Leipzig (r 7th-19th Dctober 1813), when French domination in Germany and Italy -vanished like an exhalation, the allies gave Napoleon another opportunity to come to terms. The overtures known as the Frankfcrt terms were ostensibly an answer to the request for information which Napoleon made at the field of Leipzig.
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