disastrousadj.

Brit.

/dᵻˈzɑːstrəs/,

/dᵻˈzastrəs/, U.S.

/dəˈzæstrəs/

Forms: 1500s desastrouse, 1500s–1600s desastrous, 1500s– disastrous, 1600s desasterous, 1600s desastrus, 1600s disasterous, 1600s disastruous, 1600s dysasterous, 1600s dysastrous.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: disaster n., -ous suffix.

Etymology: < disaster n. + -ous suffix, after Middle French desastreux (French désastreux) affected by disaster, unfortunate (1557), that causes great harm or damage (1571), itself after Italian disastroso affected by disaster, unfortunate (second half of the 16th cent.; 14th cent. as desastruso).Compare Spanish desastroso (15th cent.). With the form disastruous compare -uous suffix.

†a. Experiencing or subject to disaster or misfortune; unfortunate, unlucky; ill-fated, ill-starred. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective]

unseelyOE

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infortunatec1390

unhappy1390

haplessa1400

mischancefula1400

unfortunedc1403

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maleurousa1460

infortunable?a1475

mal-infortunedc1475

unselc1480

mischanced1488

misadventurousa1500

unhap1509

misfortunate1510

mischancya1522

unuredc1525

maleureda1529

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untoward1570

unable?1572

sinister1576

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disastrous1586

unweirdedc1590

wanhappy?1590

misbefallen1591

fortuneless1596

infelicious1598

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improsperous1602

untoward1632

unhandsome1640

ill-fated1715

donsie?1719

swarthy1756

infelicitous1835

bad luck1872

stiff1919

spooked1937

jinxed1972

1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 184 If she aford mee but one sparkle of hope and fauour, she doth it to no other ende, but to make mee more desastrous [It. per istratiarmi maggiormente].

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida Induct. sig. A3 He prou'd alwaies desastrous in loue.

1603 in tr. J. Teixeira Contin. Adventures Dom Sebastian Ep. to Rdr. sig. A2 The infortunate accidents this disasterous King hath sustained.

1648 Hybernæ Lachrymæ (single sheet) Disastrous State! How beautifull, how faire Thy Buildings, and how foule thy Vices were?

a1763 W. Shenstone Oeconomy iii, in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 303 Ah! disastrous wight! In evil hour and rashly dost thou trust The fraudful couch!

1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 225 The various calamities that befel this disastrous fleet.

1836 J. G. Whittier in Laurel 60 Men gathered on the shore..Hoping, yet fearing much, some frail Memorial might tell The fate of that disastrous ship.

1888 Godey's Lady's Bk. Apr. 301/2 One lady..has put her interfering and disastrous husband upon a pension, as the only way to keep him from injuring the structure she laboriously reared.

b. Highly unsuccessful or leading to failure; characterized by failure.

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1837 H. Lawrence Jrnl. 11 Oct. (1980) 59 Our dawn trip was a most disastrous one, the bearers at no stage of the tour being ready, and then being vile jawing fellows.

1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 308 Going up the spout..was used, in the Confederate army almost exclusively, for any disastrous conclusion of an enterprise.

1902 Mt. Pleasant (Iowa) Daily News 21 May A young stowaway..made a most disastrous choice, for not only was his offer to act as cabin boy..rejected, but he was hunted off the ship.

1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. vi. 138 A cowboy of his brought a disastrous career to an end by raiding the pantry.

1975 T. Hughes Let. 3 Apr. (2009) 365 I bought a farm... I entered it just when the whole thing went crash. So I've farmed through the most disastrous year in the history of British farming.

2011 Daily Tel. 11 Nov. 35/7 Daisy Lewis delights with her deliciously dizzy but also poignant Georgina, all faddy diets, fashion mags and disastrous nights on the town.

2. Presaging disaster; ill-omened, unpropitious. Now archaic and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective] > inauspicious

perilousc1390

unlucky1519

unchancy1533

unhappy1533

infortunate1548

sinistrous?c1550

luckless1584

dismal1588

ominous1589

fatal1590

bad-bodinga1592

disastrous1598

inauspicious1599

black1604

naught1620

inauspicate1632

infaustous1656

infaust1658

ill-omened1685

black boding1743

wanchancy1768

oracular1820

inominous1832

widdershins1926

1598 I. K. tr. Petrarch in tr. A. Romei Courtiers Acad. i. 24 When all disastrous lights [It. le luci impie e felle], euill fortune that detect, Were all in heau'ne extinct, and darkened questionlesse.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1292 Reputing the third of these intercalar daies to be desasterous and dismall [Fr. malencontreux].

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 597 As when the Sun..from behind the Moon In dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On half the Nations.

1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 79 What Stars their black, disastrous Influence shed On Thy Nativity.

1795 Oracle & Public Advertiser 26 Jan. Crosby's Royal Fortune-telling Almanack..containing..Predictions for Births, Disastrous Days, Visible Eclipses.

a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 42 By the bell's disastrous tongue.

1887 H. D. Rawnsley Sonnets round Coast 219 Thou who hast left a name that cannot die—A splendour in the dark disastrous north, And from thy bronze dost front the Polar star!

1921 N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 247 He gives not so much as his eyes to ways when they grow perilous, and lies indifferent to disastrous or propitious stars.

2015 M. Griffiths Choosing & Using Astron. Filters iv. 85 Comets became part of the predictable, mechanistic universe despite their rather disastrous aspect.

3. Of an event, etc.: that constitutes a disaster or calamity; that causes great harm or damage, or has a catastrophic outcome; ruinous.

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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective] > calamitous or disastrous

unholda1350

blacka1387

unhappyc1386

mischievousc1390

mischieffula1400

tragicalc1525

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calamitous1545

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disadventurous1590

ominous1594

dismal1599

disastrous1601

ill-starredc1704

disventurousa1739

catastrophal1842

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 155 A faction no lesse disastrous [It. nociuto] to the state of Persia then the warre of Turkie.

a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) i. ii. 18 All humane greatness,..must end, and perhaps in a disasterous and unhappy conclusion.

1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. iii. 201 Events more disastrous to France.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 225 The Samyal wind..so disastrous in its effects.

1826 in Econ. Hist. Rev. 15 (1962) 115 Should it be undertaken precipitatedly or unadvisedly..the consequences could be disastrous.

1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) II. iii. xlvii. 549 Heavy rains followed by disastrous floods.

1902 Daily Chron. 8 Apr. 5/1 The terracing which collapsed with such disastrous results during the football match at Ibrox Park on Saturday.

1964 J. Lofthouse Countrygoer in Dales 76 A disastrous waterquake which swept away houses and bridges before it in a mighty flood.

2011 New Yorker 8 Aug. 38/2 The 1980 Delta Force operation..resulted in a disastrous collision in the Iranian desert, killing eight American soldiers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	disastrous
释义	disastrousadj. Brit. /dᵻˈzɑːstrəs/, /dᵻˈzastrəs/, U.S. /dəˈzæstrəs/ Forms: 1500s desastrouse, 1500s–1600s desastrous, 1500s– disastrous, 1600s desasterous, 1600s desastrus, 1600s disasterous, 1600s disastruous, 1600s dysasterous, 1600s dysastrous. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: disaster n., -ous suffix. Etymology: < disaster n. + -ous suffix, after Middle French desastreux (French désastreux) affected by disaster, unfortunate (1557), that causes great harm or damage (1571), itself after Italian disastroso affected by disaster, unfortunate (second half of the 16th cent.; 14th cent. as desastruso).Compare Spanish desastroso (15th cent.). With the form disastruous compare -uous suffix. 1. †a. Experiencing or subject to disaster or misfortune; unfortunate, unlucky; ill-fated, ill-starred. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective] unseelyOE ungraciousa1387 infortunatec1390 unhappy1390 haplessa1400 mischancefula1400 unfortunedc1403 infortuneda1413 maleurousa1460 infortunable?a1475 mal-infortunedc1475 unselc1480 mischanced1488 misadventurousa1500 unhap1509 misfortunate1510 mischancya1522 unuredc1525 maleureda1529 unlucky1530 unfortunate1548 luckless1563 unluckly1564 unfortunable1567 untoward1570 unable?1572 sinister1576 unsonsy1578 disaster1584 disastereda1586 disastrous1586 unweirdedc1590 wanhappy?1590 misbefallen1591 fortuneless1596 infelicious1598 misadventured1599 improsperous1602 untoward1632 unhandsome1640 ill-fated1715 donsie?1719 swarthy1756 infelicitous1835 bad luck1872 stiff1919 spooked1937 jinxed1972 1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 184 If she aford mee but one sparkle of hope and fauour, she doth it to no other ende, but to make mee more desastrous [It. per istratiarmi maggiormente]. 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida Induct. sig. A3 He prou'd alwaies desastrous in loue. 1603 in tr. J. Teixeira Contin. Adventures Dom Sebastian Ep. to Rdr. sig. A2 The infortunate accidents this disasterous King hath sustained. 1648 Hybernæ Lachrymæ (single sheet) Disastrous State! How beautifull, how faire Thy Buildings, and how foule thy Vices were? a1763 W. Shenstone Oeconomy iii, in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 303 Ah! disastrous wight! In evil hour and rashly dost thou trust The fraudful couch! 1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 225 The various calamities that befel this disastrous fleet. 1836 J. G. Whittier in Laurel 60 Men gathered on the shore..Hoping, yet fearing much, some frail Memorial might tell The fate of that disastrous ship. 1888 Godey's Lady's Bk. Apr. 301/2 One lady..has put her interfering and disastrous husband upon a pension, as the only way to keep him from injuring the structure she laboriously reared. b. Highly unsuccessful or leading to failure; characterized by failure. ΚΠ 1837 H. Lawrence Jrnl. 11 Oct. (1980) 59 Our dawn trip was a most disastrous one, the bearers at no stage of the tour being ready, and then being vile jawing fellows. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 308 Going up the spout..was used, in the Confederate army almost exclusively, for any disastrous conclusion of an enterprise. 1902 Mt. Pleasant (Iowa) Daily News 21 May A young stowaway..made a most disastrous choice, for not only was his offer to act as cabin boy..rejected, but he was hunted off the ship. 1930 L. G. D. Acland Early Canterbury Runs 1st Ser. vi. 138 A cowboy of his brought a disastrous career to an end by raiding the pantry. 1975 T. Hughes Let. 3 Apr. (2009) 365 I bought a farm... I entered it just when the whole thing went crash. So I've farmed through the most disastrous year in the history of British farming. 2011 Daily Tel. 11 Nov. 35/7 Daisy Lewis delights with her deliciously dizzy but also poignant Georgina, all faddy diets, fashion mags and disastrous nights on the town. 2. Presaging disaster; ill-omened, unpropitious. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective] > inauspicious perilousc1390 unlucky1519 unchancy1533 unhappy1533 infortunate1548 sinistrous?c1550 luckless1584 dismal1588 ominous1589 fatal1590 bad-bodinga1592 disastrous1598 inauspicious1599 black1604 naught1620 inauspicate1632 infaustous1656 infaust1658 ill-omened1685 black boding1743 wanchancy1768 oracular1820 inominous1832 widdershins1926 1598 I. K. tr. Petrarch in tr. A. Romei Courtiers Acad. i. 24 When all disastrous lights [It. le luci impie e felle], euill fortune that detect, Were all in heau'ne extinct, and darkened questionlesse. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1292 Reputing the third of these intercalar daies to be desasterous and dismall [Fr. malencontreux]. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 597 As when the Sun..from behind the Moon In dim Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On half the Nations. View more context for this quotation 1708 J. Philips Cyder ii. 79 What Stars their black, disastrous Influence shed On Thy Nativity. 1795 Oracle & Public Advertiser 26 Jan. Crosby's Royal Fortune-telling Almanack..containing..Predictions for Births, Disastrous Days, Visible Eclipses. a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 42 By the bell's disastrous tongue. 1887 H. D. Rawnsley Sonnets round Coast 219 Thou who hast left a name that cannot die—A splendour in the dark disastrous north, And from thy bronze dost front the Polar star! 1921 N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 247 He gives not so much as his eyes to ways when they grow perilous, and lies indifferent to disastrous or propitious stars. 2015 M. Griffiths Choosing & Using Astron. Filters iv. 85 Comets became part of the predictable, mechanistic universe despite their rather disastrous aspect. 3. Of an event, etc.: that constitutes a disaster or calamity; that causes great harm or damage, or has a catastrophic outcome; ruinous. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective] > calamitous or disastrous unholda1350 blacka1387 unhappyc1386 mischievousc1390 mischieffula1400 tragicalc1525 tragic1533 calamitous1545 mistempered1570 disadventurous1590 ominous1594 dismal1599 disastrous1601 ill-starredc1704 disventurousa1739 catastrophal1842 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 155 A faction no lesse disastrous [It. nociuto] to the state of Persia then the warre of Turkie. a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) i. ii. 18 All humane greatness,..must end, and perhaps in a disasterous and unhappy conclusion. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. iii. 201 Events more disastrous to France. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 225 The Samyal wind..so disastrous in its effects. 1826 in Econ. Hist. Rev. 15 (1962) 115 Should it be undertaken precipitatedly or unadvisedly..the consequences could be disastrous. 1875 C. Lyell & L. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 12) II. iii. xlvii. 549 Heavy rains followed by disastrous floods. 1902 Daily Chron. 8 Apr. 5/1 The terracing which collapsed with such disastrous results during the football match at Ibrox Park on Saturday. 1964 J. Lofthouse Countrygoer in Dales 76 A disastrous waterquake which swept away houses and bridges before it in a mighty flood. 2011 New Yorker 8 Aug. 38/2 The 1980 Delta Force operation..resulted in a disastrous collision in the Iranian desert, killing eight American soldiers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1586
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