Synonym: black, calamitous, fatal, fateful. Similar words: disaster, astronomer, obstreperous, disabled, disagree, disappear, disability, strong. Meaning: [-trəs] adj. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin.
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121. He said they had national characteristics and that partition would be disastrous.
122. It was concealed, with disastrous results, for Culpepper and Dereham were executed on 1 December 1540.
123. These new forests have also had a disastrous effect on the quality of loch fishing.
124. After a disastrous start, the target was slashed to a mere 14m.
125. The trip was to become the epitome of the affair: misconceived, well-meaning, disastrous, courageous, deceptive and surreal.
126. We had a disastrous snowfall which had serious political overtones.
127. Labor unions continue to wage these dismal quarrels against management with almost uniformly disastrous results for the workers and their communities.
128. A small percentage of women have found that their immunity has worn off with disastrous results.
129. And in the long run the improvisation of a constitutional structure on the basis of currently perceived utility will be disastrous.
130. You've heard of love on the rebound[sentencedict.com], and falling for Fen could prove to be even more disastrous.
131. For the large mammals, clearing the mountainsides for planting was inevitably disastrous.
132. Trembling with shock, she leaned against a sundial and re-ran the disastrous interview in her mind from start to finish.
133. But human variability can also result in system performance that is disorganized, with negative or even disastrous effects.
134. The project has been disastrous for the bank in terms of public relations, and has divided Bank's own officials.
135. Are we actually going to learn anything from this recent disastrous period?
136. Unfortunately the results of some very crude cold-blown bottle tests were disastrous.
137. The former system could still be used by a smallholder on suitable land, the latter would be disastrous.
138. In an interview with the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda he complained of disastrous government economic policies which he had been powerless to influence.
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139. He settled in London and astounded the country by the extent to which he was able to overcome his disastrous physical handicaps.
140. Labour in 1983 under Michael Foot fought a disastrous campaign.
141. That passage appeared prescient when the disastrous wreck on the Scillies scuttled four warships.
142. Mrs Roper and I were entitled to legal aid, but unfortunately Mrs McNeil wasn't, and that proved disastrous.
143. That moved proved disastrous for the Cardinals, who were 12-20 under Ryan.
144. The failure to separate the egg shells from the live shrimp may prove disastrous.
145. To sum up, damp walls are not disastrous structurally, but the cause must be ascertained and the condition rectified.
146. Black was bitterly disappointed after a disastrous batting collapse threatened to ruin the old boys' Schweppes debut.
147. You can't spend the rest of your life running from one disastrous affair.
148. Conversely, we can see that the unhappy coincidence of an invalid self-description and a negative evaluation creates a disastrous scenario.
149. There is no doubt that this encouragement to grow potatoes had a disastrous sequel some fifty years later.
150. The two have returned from a disastrous holiday in Greecebut the worst is yet to come.
More similar words: disaster, astronomer, obstreperous, disabled, disagree, disappear, disability, strong, stroke, destroy, trouble, troubled, distress, district, distract, atrocious, distribute, control group, onerous, distribution, The last rites, numerous, humorous, generous, malodorous, boisterous, infrastructure, preposterous, as as, sassy.