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[ adjective ] (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
Synonyms Examples "the stock market crashed on Black Friday" "a calamitous defeat" "a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign" "this would be absolutely fatal to my theory" Used in print ("Editorials"...)If this capacity had not failed them , they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation . (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)The debris of his other careers was piled everywhere ; a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window_sill , vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting_out into the air , masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass_through a whole house , visible all_the_way up through wire gratings on each floor . Related terms |
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