disastrous
adjEtymology
From disaster + -ous, after Middle French desastreux (modern French désastreux; from desastre (modern French désastre, “disaster”; from des- + astre, a calque of Italian disastro) + -eux), itself after Italian disastroso, from disastro + -oso, from dis- (“away, without”) (from Latin dis-) + astro (“star, planet”) (from Latin astrum (“star, celestial body”), from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́στρον (ắstron)).
- derived from ᾰ̓́στρον
- derived from astrum
- derived from dis-
- derived from disastroso
- derived from disastro
- derived from desastreux
Definitions
Of the nature of a disaster
Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
Foreboding disaster
Foreboding disaster; ill-omened.
- A fearsome sight it was to behold how he swelled in his wrath, and his eyes blazed like disastrous stars at midnight, and being wood with anger he gnashed his teeth till the froth stood at his lips and slavered down his chin.
The neighborhood
- synonymapocalyptic
- synonymcalamitous
- synonymcataclysmal
- synonymcataclysmic
- synonymcatastrophic
- synonymdeadly
- synonymdebacular
- synonymdestructive
- synonymdevastating
- synonymdisadventurous
- synonymdisastrous
- synonymeradicative
- neighbordisaster
- neighbordisastrously
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at disastrous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at disastrous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at disastrous
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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