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English → English (gcide) Definition: Disastrousness Disastrous \Dis*as"trous\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]sastreux. See Disaster.] 1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; ending in utter failure or ruin; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking. [1913 Webster] Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. --Shak. -- Dis*as"trous*ly, adv. -- Dis*as"trous*ness, n. [1913 Webster]