[れっしん, resshin] (n) disastrous earthquake; (P) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Disastrous \Dis*as"trous\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]sastreux. See
{Disaster}.]
1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious;
ill-boding. [Obs.]
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The moon
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton.
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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.
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Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. --Shak.
-- {Dis*as"trous*ly}, adv. -- {Dis*as"trous*ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
disastrous
adj 1: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire
consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on
Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a
disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such
doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my
theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war
without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a
fateful error" [syn: {black}, {calamitous}, {disastrous},
{fatal}, {fateful}]
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