Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
DISASTROUS
black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
(adjective) (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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
disastrous (comparative more disastrous, superlative most disastrous)
Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
Foreboding disaster; ill-omened.
Synonyms
• (calamitous): cataclysmic, catastrophic
• (ill-omened): ill-boding, inauspicious, sinister
Antonyms
• auspicious
• fortunate
Source: Wiktionary
Dis*as"trous, a. Etym: [Cf. F. désastreux. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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