disastrous

English

Etymology

From French désastreux, from Middle French desastre (“disaster”) (modern désastre), from Italian disastro, itself from dis- (“away, without”) (from Latin) + astro (“star, planet”) (from Latin astrum 'star, celestial body', from Ancient Greek (astron)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈzɑːstɹəs/

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Adjective

disastrous (comparative more disastrous, superlative most disastrous)

1. Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
2. Foreboding disaster; ill-omened.

Synonyms

• (calamitous): cataclysmic, catastrophic
• (ill-omened): ill-boding, inauspicious, sinister

Antonyms

• auspicious
• fortunate

Derived terms

• disastrously

Translations

of the nature of a disaster; calamitous

• Bulgarian: бедствен (bg) (bedstven), катастрофален (bg) (katastrofalen)
• Catalan: desastrós
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 灾难的

• Dutch: rampzalig (nl), catastrofaal (nl), rampspoedig
• Esperanto: katastrofa
• Finnish: tuhoisa (fi)
• French: désastreux (fr)
• German: desaströs (de), katastrophal (de), verheerend (de)
• Greek: καταστροφικός (el) (katastrofikós)
• Hungarian: súlyos (hu), katasztrofális (hu)

• Icelandic: hrapallegur (is)
• Japanese: 忌まわしい (ja) (imawashii)
• Korean: 재난의 (ko) (jaenanui), 처참하다 (cheochamhada)
• Latin: calamitōsus
• Portuguese: desastroso (pt)
• Russian: бе́дственный (ru) (bédstvennyj), ги́бельный (ru) (gíbelʹnyj), катастрофи́ческий (ru) (katastrofíčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏тастрофа̄лан m

  Roman: kȁtastrofālan (sh) m

• Spanish: desastroso
• Swedish: ödesdiger (sv), katastrofal (sv)
• Turkish: feci (tr)

foreboding disaster; ill-omened

• Bulgarian: пагубен (bg) (paguben)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 灾难性的

• Dutch: onheilspellend (nl), sinister (nl)
• Finnish: pahaenteinen (fi)

• German: verhängnisvoll
• Hungarian: baljós (hu)
• Japanese: 忌まわしい (ja) (imawashii)
• Russian: па́губный (ru) (págubnyj)

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• Irish: ^{(please verify)} ainiarmhartach

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} disastroso (it)