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disastrous, a.|dɪˈzɑːstrəs, -æ-|
Also 6–7 des-, 7 dysastrous, disasterous.
[a. F. désastreux, -euse (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), f. désastre: cf. It. disastroso ‘vnfortunate, vnluckie’ (Florio 1598). See disaster n. and -ous.]
†1. Stricken with or subject to disasters; ill-starred, ill-fated; unfortunate, unlucky. Obs.
1586B. Young tr. Guazzo's Civ. Conv. iv. 184 If she aford mee but one sparkle of hope and favour, she doth it to no other ende, but to make mee more desastrous. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. Induct. Wks. 1856 I. 2 He prov'd alwaies desastrous in love. 1603Adv. Don Sebastian in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 368 The unfortunate accidents this disasterous king hath sustained. c1750Shenstone Poems, Economy iii. 43 Ah disastrous wight! In evil hour and rashly dost thou trust The fraudful couch! 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 225 The various calamities that befel this disastrous fleet.
2. Foreboding disaster, of evil omen, unpropitious, ill-boding. arch.
1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1292 Reputing the third of these intercalar daies to be desasterous and dismall. 1648Gage West. Ind. xii. (1655) 47 At whose birth could not but be some dysastrous aspect of the Planets. 1667Milton P.L. i. 597 As when the Sun..from behind the Moon In dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On half the Nations. a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 42 By the bell's disastrous tongue.
3. Of the nature of a disaster; fraught or attended with disaster; calamitous.
1603R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1630) 573 A faction no lesse disasterous to the State of Persia, than the warre of Turkie. 1608D. T. Ess. Pol. & Mor. 76 b, The very first allarum of any sinister, and disastrous accident. 1684Contempl. State Man i. ii. (1699) 18 All human greatness..must end, and perhaps in a disasterous and unhappy conclusion. 1769Robertson Chas. V, V. iii. 344 Events more disastrous to France. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 225 The Samyal wind..so disastrous in its effects. 1874Green Short Hist. v. §1. 217 We have followed the attack on Scotland to its disastrous close. 1875Lyell Princ. Geol. II. iii. xlvii. 549 Heavy rains followed by disastrous floods.
Hence diˈsastrousness. rare.
1727Bailey vol. II, Disastrousness, unluckiness, unfortunateness. |