dis'astrous
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| —n | |
| 1. | an occurrence that causes great distress or destruction |
| 2. | a thing, project, etc, that fails or has been ruined |
| [C16 (originally in the sense: malevolent astral influence): from Italian disastro, from dis- (pejorative) + astro star, from Latin astrum, from Greek astron] | |
| dis'astrous | |
| —adj | |
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