disastrous

English

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)).

Adjective

disastrous (comparative more disastrous, superlative most disastrous)

1. of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
2. foreboding disaster; ill-omened.

Synonyms

• (calamitous) cataclysmic, catastrophic
• (ill-omened) ill-boding, inausîcuous, sinister

Derived terms

• disastrously

Translations

of the nature of a disaster; calamitous

Bulgarian: бедствен (bg), катастрофален (bg) Dutch: rampzalig, catastrofaal, rampspoedig French: désastreux (fr) German: desaströs (de), katastrophal (de) Hungarian: súlyos (hu), katasztrofális (hu)

Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ка̏тастрофа̄лан (sh) m. Roman: kȁtastrofālan (sh) m. Spanish: desastroso (es) Swedish: ödesdiger (sv), katastrofal (sv)

foreboding disaster; ill-omened

Bulgarian: пагубен (bg) Dutch: onheilspellend (nl), sinister (nl)

German: verhängnisvoll (de) Hungarian: baljós (hu)

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Italian: disastroso