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# disastrous

«disastrous» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very bad, causing great harm, loss or ruin, as a flood or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (disastrous, more disastrous, most disastrous)

### meaning for a pupil

Very bad, causing great harm, loss or ruin, as a flood or a fire does. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disastrous/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a disastrous flood destroys towns and villages; in lessons a failed plan or a bad storm can be called disastrous

### examples

- The flood was disastrous for the village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disastrous/#x1)
- The party was a disastrous mess after the cake fell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disastrous/#x2)
- A disastrous storm blew down all the trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disastrous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disastrous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disastrous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.