disastrous
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[edit] 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)).
[edit] Adjective
disastrous (comparative more disastrous, superlative most disastrous)
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- of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
- foreboding disaster; ill-omened.
[edit] Synonyms
- (calamitous) cataclysmic, catastrophic
- (ill-omened) ill-boding, inausîcuous, sinister
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[edit] Translations
of the nature of a disaster; calamitous
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foreboding disaster; ill-omened
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