Definition: 1. Having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin. 2. Very bad, harmful or unsuccessful.
Use 'disastrous' in a sentence:
1. If followed, these suggestions will make disastrous earthquakes almost a thing of the past.
2. It's become so iconic that attempts to change its taste in 1985—sweetening it in a move projected to boost sales—proved disastrous, with widespread backlash and anger from consumers.
3. He is rumoured to be on the way out of professional cycling following a disastrous season.
4. The heavy rainstorm caused a disastrous flood.
5. This had been a disastrous week for Prime Minister Major.
6. All in all, the Olympic class ships were marvels of sea engineering, but they seemed cursed to suffer disastrous fates.
7. Two of the world's top four computer manufacturers have announced a shotgun wedding prompted by slumping sales and disastrous financial losses.
8. In the history of coalition warfare such impasses have been common, and sometimes disastrous.
9. We will see unimaginative governments and dying corporations make disastrous decisions.
10. The new system has had a disastrous effect on productivity.
11. We wanted to avoid a rerun of last year's disastrous trip.
12. Napoleon's army was sacrificed on the altar of folly in the disastrous Russian campaign.
13. When they step off screen, their personal lives may be disastrous.
14. England's cricketers have had another disastrous day.
15. In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck, by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival.
16. Britain might still be part of France if it weren't for a disastrous flood 200,000 years ago, according to scientists from Imperial College in London.
17. This period was more disastrous for farmers than earlier times had been, because farmers were no longer self-sufficient.
18. Inherently introverted, he realised early on that as an academic, his reticence would prove disastrous in the lecture hall.
19. That could prove disastrous.
20. Global warming could bring disastrous effects to Earth, so it is high time for us to protect our earth.
21. Obree summed his weekend up in one word: 'Disastrous.'
22. This can be a disastrous recipe.
23. There was no hope of escape from her disastrous marriage.
24. The study concluded, "Such distractions have the potential to be disastrous."
25. A tardy arrival is disastrous.
26. The disastrous Hanshin earthquake in 1995 killed 6,400 people, toppled elevated highways, flattened office blocks and devastated the port area of Kobe.
27. The road was disastrous.
28. I want everyone to get into small groups and come up with some examples, not of good advertising messages, but of truly disastrous ones.
29. The effect on coffee prices has been disastrous for the producers.
30. This is not in itself disastrous.
31. The fire was disastrous.
32. He believed that the policies were both wrong and electorally disastrous.
33. In comparison with the total number of earthquakes each year, the number of disastrous earthquakes is very small.
34. It's become so iconic that attempts to change its taste in 1985—sweetening it in a move projected to boost sales—proved disastrous, with widespread anger from consumers.
35. Some of the blame for the disastrous night must be shouldered by the promoters.
36. It is necessary to guard against disastrous fires when burning wild bushes and weeds.
37. It's become so iconic that attempts to change its taste in 1985-sweetening it in a move projected to boost sales proved disastrous, with widespread anger from consumers.
38. Carelessness in driving often results in disastrous accidents.
39. For this critic, photography was linked with "the great industrial madness" of the time, which in his eyes exercised disastrous consequences on the spiritual qualities of life and art.
40. If word got out now, a scandal could be disastrous.
41. The decision was disastrous in political terms.
42. Meteorite impacts can be advantageous for some species, which thrive, and disastrous for other species, which become extinct.
43. A disastrous business venture lost him thousands of dollars.
44. Lowering interest rates could have disastrous consequences for the economy.
45. Last year's figures were little short of disastrous.
46. They told Jacques Delors a disastrous world trade war must be avoided at all costs.
47. If you tell a person to 'step on it' or 'throw on your coat,' they may take you literally, with disastrous consequences.
48. My disastrous exam results dealt the coup de gr â ce to my university career.
49. Her idea was good, but her execution of the scheme was disastrous.
50. His original idea was good, but his execution of the scheme was disastrous.
