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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181. It would, however, have disastrous consequences for the poor and in the long term for society as a whole.
182. Particularly disastrous, but not uncommon, have been the effects of landslips and rock-falls into bodies of water.
183. If I'd published my results, the consequences could have been disastrous.
184. Maybe ever since he left Vera for Imogen - which was disastrous for him.
185. After a disastrous first marriage to a young soldier, Kylie didn't feel like rushing into another relationship.
186. Only when the speech had turned Jeffries into a disastrous image problem had the university acted.
187. In the future, a single much-publicized outbreak from a named source could prove disastrous to the industry.
188. Hosea uses the bold image of his own disastrous marriage to an unfaithful woman.
189. And what worked for a partnership proved disastrous in a publicly owned corporation.
190. The earliest and most disastrous of these emulations took place in the isolated village of Bognor.
191. In the long term, with bookings for next summer arriving in a bare trickle, the prospects are disastrous.
192. A disastrous pesticide spill killed all water life along 40 miles of the river.
193. It would have prospered had it not been for the disastrous fire of 1935 that largely destroyed it.
194. The overall effect of these dynastic upsets and sudden reversal of political alignment was disastrous from Rome's viewpoint.
195. The Wall Street Crash was disastrous for many American businessmen.
196. To have had more public spending rather than less would have been disastrous.
197. The bakery's expansion plans come just eighteen months after the business was hit by a disastrous fire.
198. After her marriage broke up, she had a series of disastrous relationships.
198. Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and make good sentences.
199. Behind it lay a tumultuous precedent-one of the most disastrous incidents to beset the face of the earth.
200. Frauenfeld was unlucky in the eighteenth century when two disastrous fires wiped out most of the town.
201. Most important, they announced that they would reverse the disastrous 1982 policy of nationalizing banks.
202. So I am hoping, sirs, that you can decide between their claims, and avoid such a disastrous outcome.
203. And he was credited with turning round Channel Four News after a disastrous start.
204. Much of the damage wrought by the disastrous three-day storm was still apparent.
205. In extreme cases they can drop out of position. with disastrous results.
206. The action takes place over one disastrous weekend full of rain, fights and missing room service.
207. They have become involved in debilitating scandals and disastrous adventures following election victories.
208. Diarrhetic shellfish toxins have had a disastrous effect on the seafood industry in many parts of the world.
209. I can see that for the marine fishkeeper, a bad test kit could be disastrous.
210. Particularly for those who cut or slice the ball, any tendency to try to hit too hard is often disastrous.
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.