disastrous

English - Turkish

Definition of disastrous in English Turkish dictionary

{s} felâket getiren

{s} feci

Aşırı dürüstlük feci olabilir. - Excessive honesty can be disastrous.

felaket getiren

felaketin doğasına ait

{s} tâlihsiz

{s} korkunç

Related Terms

disastrous earthquake

(Çevre) afet oluşturan deprem

disastrous marriage

başarısız evlilik

disastrous policy

(Politika, Siyaset) yıkıcı siyaset

disastrously

z. feci halde

disastrously

feci halde

English - English

Definition of disastrous in English English dictionary

of the nature of a disaster; calamitous

foreboding disaster; ill-omened

A disastrous event has extremely bad consequences and effects. the recent, disastrous earthquake = catastrophic + disastrously dis·as·trous·ly The vegetable harvest is disastrously behind schedule

{s} terrible, dreadful, causing disaster

Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill- boding

(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"

Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking

If you describe something as disastrous, you mean that it was very unsuccessful. their disastrous performance in the general election of 1906. + disastrously dis·as·trous·ly the company's disastrously timed venture into property development. very bad, or ending in failure

Related Terms

disastrous effect

terrible result, influence which results in disaster

disastrously

In a disastrous way. (Of the nature of a disaster; calamitously.)

disastrously

{a} unluckily, in a dismal manner

Disastrously

disasterly

disastrously

in disastrous manner, calamitously; terribly, awfully

disastrously

in a disastrous manner; "the real value of the trust capital may be disastrously less than when the trust began

Hyphenation

dis·as·trous

Turkish pronunciation

dîzästrıs

Synonyms

cataclysmic, catastrophic, ill-boding, inausîcuous, sinister, adverse, calamitous, cataclysmal, destructive, dire, dreadful, fatal, fateful, hapless, harmful

Antonyms

blessed, fortunate, lucky, miraculous, prosperous, successful, triumphant, winning, wondrous

Pronunciation

/dəˈzastrəs/ /dɪˈzæstrəs/

Etymology

() From French désastreux, from Middle French desastre (modern désastre) 'disaster', from Italian disastro, itself from dis- "away, without" (from Latin) + astro "star, planet" (from Latin astrum 'star, celestial body', from Ancient Greek (astron)).

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