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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151. As the world becomes hotter, there could be disastrous changes in weather patterns and widespread flooding as sea levels rise.
152. In 1898, six years after Spurgeon's death, the building suffered a disastrous fire and had to be rebuilt.
153. Unfortunately for the United States, hewing to the status quo could have disastrous unintended consequences.
154. Collectivisation in particular is disastrous for nomadic peoples, who need to roam freely to feed their animals on sparse vegetation.
155. From time to time Jos would look over Mungo's shoulder, suggesting tactics which invariably proved disastrous.
156. Such critical features of the peasant economy as horse-ownership showed a disastrous drop during the late nineteenth century.
157. Or was it a complex mixture of defensible goals and disastrous execution?
158. It is important that the profession makes the public aware that the effect of increasing understaffing is potentially disastrous.
159. Following a women's revolt against disastrous management and poverty at the farm, Gavrilova was elected director.
160. What may not harm a recently built house may be disastrous for a 150-year-old wall.
161. That very inevitability is being challenged today by the accumulation of disastrous effects on body, nature, and place.
162. There was a fault in the engine design, which had disastrous consequences.
163. Now Whittingham is the target for Brian Clough to help end his side's disastrous start to the season.
164. Used carelessly, they can be disastrous for companies, governments, and investors.
165. However, a shortsighted focus on individual animals could prove disastrous for long-term conservation efforts.
166. She saw them just as they saw her, and waved to them - with disastrous results.
167. It is time to shut nuclear power down, and begin the task of decommissioning Britain's most disastrous experiment.
168. The resultant high temperatures and high humidities could have had a disastrous effect on both land and marine faunas.
169. The mistakes of fragmentation have already been made in London,[Sentencedict.com] with disastrous results for cycling facilities.
170. There are circumstances in which the incorrect diagnosis and inappropriate administration of a thrombolytic would be disastrous; for example, acute pericarditis.
171. A small number of these experiments proved disastrous for both members and the larger society.
172. It was Mellor who salvaged something from the disastrous 1990 Broadcasting Bill, which presaged the widely-ridiculed independent television franchise round.
173. With Prince Philip, she has to share the blame for the disastrous decade which has engulfed the royals.
174. The reasoning behind the unpopular and disastrous resignation immediately became the subject of intense speculation.
175. The Support Force was launched in September 1992 by the DoH in a disastrous public relations exercise.
176. The implications of such a view were potentially disastrous for positivist criminology.
177. The silly boy might have made potentially disastrous mistakes, but he had preserved the basis of his claim.
178. Advantageous as that is in its proper place it would be disastrous if such numbers turned up as eigenvalues.
179. He took over after the disastrous administration of Manoj Vyas and restored confidence in county government and stability to county employment.
180. But early indications of the overall sales numbers suggest that it should not have been a disastrous Christmas for retailers.
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.