Definition of disasterous
1. disastrous [ a ] (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
Examples:
"the stock market crashed on Black Friday"
"a calamitous defeat"
"a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"
"this would be absolutely fatal to my theory"
("Editorials"...)
If this capacity had not failed them , they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation .
(Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)
The debris of his other careers was piled everywhere ; a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window_sill , vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting_out into the air , masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass_through a whole house , visible all_the_way up through wire gratings on each floor .
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