disastrous
adjective
causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous.
disastrousness
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a word derived from
disastrous.
Example Sentences
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Malinin wasn’t shrinking from the disastrousness which had happened.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
According to Bregman’s analysis, accounts of Speenhamland’s disastrousness were based on a single report by the commission empowered to replace it.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 2, 2018
I feel like I experienced my 20s in all their glory and all their disastrousness, and now I feel much more calm.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2011
One other thing—and the last to be here named, because the very least in the conscious thoughts of Pierre; one other thing remained to menace him with assured disastrousness.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
The picture which they exhibit is hourly exemplified and realized, though in the many-coloured scenes of human life none surpasses it in disastrousness and horror.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
