disastrous
adjective
di·sas·trous
di-ˈza-strəs 
also -ˈsa-
1
: attended by or causing suffering or disaster : calamitous
a disastrous flood
2
: terrible, horrendous
a disastrous score
disastrously
adverb
Examples of disastrous in a Sentence
Half the city was destroyed by a disastrous fire.
The bad weather could have a disastrous effect on the area's tourism industry.
His failure to back up the computer files had disastrous consequences.
The strike was economically disastrous.
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The Irish actor, who’s currently starring in the Netflix film Ballad of a Small Player, described a disastrous scene while shooting his big breakthrough Hollywood role in Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi classic Minority Report.
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James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
Massa, though, finished outside the points following a disastrous pit stop and eventually lost the world championship by one point to Lewis Hamilton.
—Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
Either way, barring some kind of disastrous injury at some point this season, the Commanders' star will be set to join this exclusive club at some point this year, cementing his status as one of the more underrated players of his generation in the process.
—Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
That was the same month that Perry resigned the planet, taking a strangely disastrous celebrity trip into the earth’s thermosphere.
—Choire Sicha, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
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James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
Massa, though, finished outside the points following a disastrous pit stop and eventually lost the world championship by one point to Lewis Hamilton.
—Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
Either way, barring some kind of disastrous injury at some point this season, the Commanders' star will be set to join this exclusive club at some point this year, cementing his status as one of the more underrated players of his generation in the process.
—Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
That was the same month that Perry resigned the planet, taking a strangely disastrous celebrity trip into the earth’s thermosphere.
—Choire Sicha, CNN Money, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Disastrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disastrous. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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