disastrous
Americanadjective
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causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous.
The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
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Archaic. foreboding disaster.
Other Word Forms
- disastrously adverb
- disastrousness noun
- nondisastrous adjective
- nondisastrously adverb
- nondisastrousness noun
- predisastrous adjective
- predisastrously adverb
- quasi-disastrous adjective
- quasi-disastrously adverb
- undisastrous adjective
- undisastrously adverb
Etymology
Origin of disastrous
1580–90; < Middle French desastreux, Italian disastroso. See disaster, -ous
Example Sentences
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She was down in 13th following a disastrous short program which left her in tears after she missed her triple loop, meaning it was scored zero as an invalid element.
From BBC
With gold on the line, the 21-year-old had such a disastrous skate that he tumbled far down off the podium and later attributed his collapse to feeling overwhelmed by the environment.
Eight years on from the disappointment of Pyeongchang and four years since her disastrous Beijing, the 30-year-old American exploded out of her Olympic slump with a slalom performance for the ages.
Stunned, he held his head in his hands after his disastrous performance and said afterwards his failure was "definitely mental".
From Barron's
Ilia Malinin fell apart in the men’s free skate, tumbling from near lock to win the gold medal to eighth place after a disastrous performance Friday.
From Los Angeles Times
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