DISASTROUS

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Dis‐as″trous (?), a. [[Cf. F. désastreux. See Disaster.]] 1. 1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding.
The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton. 2. 2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking.
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. Shak. — Dis‐as″trous‐ly, adv. — Dis‐as″trous‐ness, n.