disastrous

Speech parts

1. disastrous - Adjective

2. disastrous - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding.

Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking.

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Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. Margot Fonteyn

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities and disastrous to force them to suppress their specifically female characteristics and abilities by keeping up the pretense that there are no differences between the sexes. Arianna Huffington

Success and failure are equally disastrous. Tennessee Williams

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. Agatha Christie

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass. Lewis Mumford

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