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English
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Etymology
From French désastreux, from Middle French desastre (“disaster”) (modern désastre), from Italian disastro, itself from dis- (“away, without”) (from Latin) + astro (“star, planet”) (from astrum (“star, celestial body”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́στρον (ástron)). By surface analysis, disaster + -ous.
Pronunciation
Adjective
disastrous (comparative more disastrous, superlative most disastrous)
- Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
- Foreboding disaster; ill-omened.
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Translations
of the nature of a disaster; calamitous
- Bulgarian: бедствен (bg) (bedstven), катастрофален (bg) (katastrofalen)
- Catalan: desastrós
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 灾难的
- Dutch: rampzalig (nl), catastrofaal (nl), rampspoedig (nl)
- Esperanto: katastrofa
- Finnish: tuhoisa (fi)
- French: désastreux (fr)
- Galician: desastroso
- German: desaströs (de), katastrophal (de), verheerend (de)
- Greek: καταστροφικός (el) (katastrofikós)
- Hungarian: súlyos (hu), katasztrofális (hu)
- Icelandic: hrapallegur (is)
- Japanese: 忌まわしい (ja) (imawashii)
- Korean: 재난의 (ko) (jaenanui), 처참하다 (cheochamhada)
- Latin: calamitōsus
- Macedonian: погубен (poguben), катастрофален (katastrofalen)
- Portuguese: desastroso (pt)
- Russian: бе́дственный (ru) (bédstvennyj), ги́бельный (ru) (gíbelʹnyj), катастрофи́ческий (ru) (katastrofíčeskij)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ка̏тастрофа̄лан
- Roman: kȁtastrofālan (sh)
- Spanish: desastroso (es)
- Swedish: ödesdiger (sv), katastrofal (sv)
- Turkish: feci (tr)
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foreboding disaster; ill-omened
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