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

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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

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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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