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disastrous
(encz) | disastrous,katastrofální adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Disastrous
(gcide) | Disastrous \Dis*as"trous\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]sastreux. See
Disaster.]
1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious;
ill-boding. [Obs.]
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The moon
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton.
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2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate;
calamitous; ill-fated; ending in utter failure or ruin;
as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an
undertaking.
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Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. --Shak.
-- Dis*as"trous*ly, adv. -- Dis*as"trous*ness, n.
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disastrous
(wn) | disastrous
adj 1: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire
consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on
Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a
disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such
doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my
theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war
without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a
fateful error" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous,
fatal, fateful] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
disastrous
(encz) | disastrous,katastrofální adj: Zdeněk Brož |
disastrously
(encz) | disastrously,katastrofálně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
Disastrously
(gcide) | Disastrous \Dis*as"trous\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]sastreux. See
Disaster.]
1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious;
ill-boding. [Obs.]
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The moon
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton.
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2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate;
calamitous; ill-fated; ending in utter failure or ruin;
as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an
undertaking.
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Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. --Shak.
-- Dis*as"trous*ly, adv. -- Dis*as"trous*ness, n.
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Disastrousness
(gcide) | Disastrous \Dis*as"trous\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]sastreux. See
Disaster.]
1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious;
ill-boding. [Obs.]
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The moon
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton.
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2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate;
calamitous; ill-fated; ending in utter failure or ruin;
as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an
undertaking.
[1913 Webster]
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. --Shak.
-- Dis*as"trous*ly, adv. -- Dis*as"trous*ness, n.
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disastrous
(wn) | disastrous
adj 1: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire
consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on
Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a
disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such
doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my
theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war
without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a
fateful error" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous,
fatal, fateful] |
disastrously
(wn) | disastrously
adv 1: in a disastrous manner; "the real value of the trust
capital may be disastrously less than when the trust
began" |
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