disastrous
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; ; ; ; - Charles Darwin; - Douglas MacArthur
- "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"
Adj
- Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
- Foreboding disaster; ill-omened.
Origin / Etymology
From disaster + -ous, after Middle French desastreux (modern French désastreux; from desastre (modern French désastre, “disaster”; from des- + astre, a calque of Italian disastro) + -eux), itself after Italian disastroso, from disastro + -oso, from dis- (“away, without”) (from Latin dis-) + astro (“star, planet”) (from Latin astrum (“star, celestial body”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́στρον (ắstron)).
Synonyms
apocalyptic, augurous, baleful, black, bodeful, boding, brooding, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, deadly, debacular, destructive, devastating, dire, disadventurous, disastrous, eradicative, extirpative, fatal, fateful, foreboding, harmful, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicate, inauspicious, lethal, nefastous, omenic, ominous, pernicious, portentous, presageful, presagious, prodigious, ruinous, sinister, star-crossed, sullen, woeful
Antonyms
auspicious, foreboding, fortunate, inauspicious, ominous, portentous
Scrabble Score: 11
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