disastrous

English

Alternative forms

disastress (obsolete)

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 astrum (“star, celestial body”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́στρον (ástron)). By surface analysis, disaster +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈzɑː.stɹəs/
- Audio (Southern England) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs/
(General Australian) IPA^(key): /dɪˈzaː.stɹəs/

Adjective

disastrous (comparative more disastrous, superlative most disastrous)

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

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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 (nl)
Esperanto: katastrofa
Finnish: tuhoisa (fi)
French: désastreux (fr)
Galician: desastroso
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
Macedonian: погубен (poguben), катастрофален (katastrofalen)
Portuguese: desastroso (pt)
Russian: бе́дственный (ru) (bédstvennyj), ги́бельный (ru) (gíbelʹnyj), катастрофи́ческий (ru) (katastrofíčeskij)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̏тастрофа̄лан

Roman: kȁtastrofālan (sh)
Spanish: desastroso (es)
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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Translations to be checked

Irish: ^{(please verify)} ainiarmhartach
Italian: ^{(please verify)} disastroso (it)

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