disastrousadjective
uk/dɪˈzɑː.strəs/us/dɪˈzæs.trəs/C1 extremely bad or unsuccessful:
Such a war would be disastrous for the country.
This decision will have a disastrous impact on foreign policy.
His first attempt was disastrous.
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- Pollution can have disastrous effects on the delicately balanced ecosystem.
- No matter how disastrous the situation there always seems to be a funny side to it.
- I tried to repaint the kitchen walls with disastrous results.
- After a disastrous first month in office, many people are beginning to wonder if the new president is up to the job.
- The cumulative effect of using so many chemicals on the land could be disastrous.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Accidents and disasters
- a knockout blow idiom
- accident
- accidental
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- banana skin
- calamity
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- debacle
- disaster area
- emergency
- forest fire
- holocaust
- knockout
- meltdown
- misadventure
- snafu
- the devil to pay idiom
- tragedy
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disastrously
adverb uk/dɪˈzɑː.strəs.li/us/dɪˈzæs.trəs.li/
Things began to go disastrously wrong.