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as in fatal
bringing about ruin or misfortune
a split-second, disastrous decision that I would forever regret
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as in devastating
causing or tending to cause destruction
a disastrous fire from which the town never fully recovered
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Recent Examples of disastrous
Despite the proliferation of international games in Europe and Latin America, no NFL regular-season contest has been played in Canada since the commercially disastrous Bills Toronto Series ran from 2008-12.
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Tim Graham, New York Times, 9 July 2025
The criticism comes after more than 100 people were killed as a result of the disastrous floods in Texas’s Kerr County — about an hour outside of San Antonio.
—Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 9 July 2025
That does not mean people place blind faith in AI or use it to displace human-to-human interactions; that would be disastrous.
—Yasmin Green, Foreign Affairs, 7 July 2025
It was largely forgotten about until closer to release (December 2020 was launch, and its disastrous release was all anyone could talk about).
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
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Tim Graham, New York Times, 9 July 2025
The criticism comes after more than 100 people were killed as a result of the disastrous floods in Texas’s Kerr County — about an hour outside of San Antonio.
—Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 9 July 2025
That does not mean people place blind faith in AI or use it to displace human-to-human interactions; that would be disastrous.
—Yasmin Green, Foreign Affairs, 7 July 2025
It was largely forgotten about until closer to release (December 2020 was launch, and its disastrous release was all anyone could talk about).
—Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 5 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disastrous
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Priya allegedly injected her business partner with a fatal overdose of sedatives, Joseph said.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
15 July 2025
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Most of Red’s acquaintances are drug-addicted and on the edge of a fatal overdose; Red is essentially alone in his efforts to save himself, except for Gulbransen, who is part doctor, part social worker, part father figure, part friend.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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Historically, the most devastating result from tariffs came from the sweeping Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act that began to wend its way through Congress in 1929, triggering the infamous stock market crash.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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The number of missing persons stands at 101 more than one week after the devastating flooding that struck Texas.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 July 2025
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Instead, like so many unfortunate accidents since cell phones were invented, this was caused by a distracted driver.—
Anne Marie D. Lee,
CBS News,
14 July 2025
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Fortunately for him, that gaffe will be a little easier to live down than Teal and Weinberg’s unfortunate comments.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
12 July 2025
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High-ranking German officials recognized what many contemporaries refused to see: that passive compliance with destructive systems was itself a moral choice.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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From the Miami Surfside condo collapse to the destructive fires in Maui and Los Angeles and countless floods and tornadoes, these days the steady drumbeat of disasters has been relentless, Hymel said.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
19 July 2025
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“Disastrous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disastrous. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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