disastrous

English

Alternative forms

• disastress (obsolete)

Etymology

From French désastreux, from Middle French desastre (“disaster”) (modern désastre), from Italian disastro, itself from dis- (“away, without”) (from Latin) + astro (“star, planet”) (from astrum (“star, celestial body”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́στρον (ástron)). By surface analysis, disaster +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈzɑː.stɹəs/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɪˈzaː.stɹəs/

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, inauspicious, sinister

Antonyms

• auspicious
• fortunate

Derived terms

• disastrously
• disastrousness
• nondisastrous
• undisastrous

 

Translations

of the nature of a disaster; calamitous

• Bulgarian: бедствен (bg) (bedstven), катастрофален (bg) (katastrofalen)
• Catalan: desastrós
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 灾难的

• Dutch: rampzalig (nl), catastrofaal (nl), rampspoedig (nl)
• Esperanto: katastrofa
• Finnish: tuhoisa (fi)
• French: désastreux (fr)
• Galician: desastroso
• German: desaströs (de), katastrophal (de), verheerend (de)
• Greek: καταστροφικός (el) (katastrofikós)
• Hungarian: súlyos (hu), katasztrofális (hu)
• Icelandic: hrapallegur (is)
• Japanese: 忌まわしい (ja) (imawashii)
• Korean: 재난의 (ko) (jaenanui), 처참하다 (cheochamhada)
• Latin: calamitōsus
• Macedonian: погубен (poguben), катастрофален (katastrofalen)
• Portuguese: desastroso (pt)
• Russian: бе́дственный (ru) (bédstvennyj), ги́бельный (ru) (gíbelʹnyj), катастрофи́ческий (ru) (katastrofíčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏тастрофа̄лан

  Roman: kȁtastrofālan (sh)

• Spanish: desastroso (es)
• Swedish: ödesdiger (sv), katastrofal (sv)
• Turkish: feci (tr)

foreboding disaster; ill-omened

• Bulgarian: пагубен (bg) (paguben)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 灾难性的

• Dutch: onheilspellend (nl), sinister (nl)
• Finnish: pahaenteinen (fi)
• German: verhängnisvoll
• Hungarian: baljós (hu)
• Japanese: 忌まわしい (ja) (imawashii)
• Russian: па́губный (ru) (págubnyj)

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Translations to be checked

• Irish: ^{(please verify)} ainiarmhartach
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} disastroso (it)