Disastrous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Accompanied by or causing distress or disaster; calamitous.
  • adj. Extremely bad; terrible: a disastrous report card.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
  • adj. foreboding disaster; ill-omened.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding.
  • adj. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; ending in utter failure or ruin
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Gloomy; dismal; threatening disaster.
  • Ruinous; unfortunate; calamitous; occasioning great distress or injury: as, the day was disastrous; the battle proved disastrous.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
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    fatal    devastate    recent    unfortunate    Embarrass    decisive    impending    perilous    deplorable    disgraceful