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单词 disastrous
释义
disastrous
adjective
uk
/dɪˈzɑː.strəs/us
/dɪˈzæs.trəs/
C1
extremelybadorunsuccessful:
极其糟糕的；极为失败的；灾难性的
Such awarwould be disastrousforthecountry.这样一场战争会给国家带来灾难性的后果。
Thisdecisionwill have a disastrousimpactonforeignpolicy.这个决定将对外交政策产生极为不利的影响。
His firstattemptwas disastrous.他第一次尝试败得很惨。
Synonym
fatal
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
not producing a desired result
  • unsuccessfulOur attempts to change the law were unsuccessful.
  • failedThe company went bankrupt pouring money into yet another failed product.
  • badSales have been really bad this quarter.
  • fruitlessAll our pleas that she remain in university were fruitless - she left anyway.
  • unfruitfulThe negotiations were unfruitful.
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More examples
  • Pollution can have disastrouseffectson thedelicatelybalancedecosystem.
  • Nomatterhow disastrous thesituationthere alwaysseemsto be afunnysideto it.
  • Itriedto repaint thekitchenwallswith disastrousresults.
  • After a disastrous firstmonthinoffice, manypeoplearebeginningtowonderif the newpresidentis up to thejob.
  • Thecumulativeeffectof using so manychemicalson thelandcould be disastrous.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Accidents and disasters
  • accident
  • accidental
  • accidentally
  • accidentally on purposeidiom
  • an accident waiting to happenidiom
  • calamity
  • cataclysm
  • cataclysmic
  • cataclysmically
  • catastrophe
  • disaster area
  • disastrously
  • dumpster fire
  • emergency
  • forest fire
  • natural disaster
  • non-emergency
  • perfect storm
  • post-accident
  • snafu
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Related word

disastrously
(Definition ofdisastrousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

disastrous| American Dictionary

disastrous
adjective
us
/dɪˈzæs·trəs/
causinggreatharm,damage, orsuffering:
It was a disastrousmistakewhich helivedtoregret.
In 1837, there was a disastroussmallpoxepidemic.
fig.Something that is disastrous is acompletefailure:
Hisattempttoplaythepianowas disastrous.
(Definition ofdisastrousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdisastrous

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The next election (1994) turned out to bedisastrousfor both parties.
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Apparently, the abbey had suffered from the loss of seasonal pastures, a recurring butdisastrousphenomenon.
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The arrival of the mail invariably brought details, which gave a darker aspect to this trulydisastrousaffair.
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The kinds of concerns we are considering are unlikely to lead todisastrousconsequences if our views are not shared.
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A want of proper circumspection on their part is liable to producedisastrousconsequences to railroad travelers, as well as to themselves.
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The attempts once more to create meaningful national states out of ethnic palimpsests have provendisastrous.
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The levelling process, through mobility of population and secondary education, has beendisastrousfor dialect.
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But this process of separation, fertile for the modern subject to arise, turns out to bedisastrousfor our environment and perhaps, too, for ourselves.
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They failed to foresee a substantial drop in their vote and their standard decision rules unexpectedly proveddisastrous.
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Although these renewed efforts at control were no more effective than the half-hearted ones that preceded them, their impact on individual lives was oftendisastrous.
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When the emotional context of the child and its parents are considered, the consequences of the stigma of the disease aredisastrous.
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Some planters do not realise thedisastrouseffects which follow when cane-tops infested with borers are planted.
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This is a kind of soft real-time constraint since deadlines can be missed withoutdisastrousconsequences.
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For five years social services had been trying to work to remedy adisastroussituation.
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The goal was to harness science and technology in an effort to make a more just society; the unintended consequences were oftendisastrous.
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