Definition of Disastrous

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Definition of Disastrous
	Disastrous Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking. Related Definitions: An, As, Attended, Calamitous, Day, Disaster, Disastrous, Full, Ill-Boding, Of, Or, Stellar, Suffering, Termination, Undertaking, Unfortunate, Very, With

Disastrous Quotations

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
Jim Morrison

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Thomas Merton

Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
David Ogilvy

Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams

Winning to often is as disastrous as losing too often. Both get the same results, the falling off of the public's enthusiasm.
Knute Rockne

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.
Conan O'Brien

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Disastrous Translations

disastrous in German is katastrophal
disastrous in Italian is catastrofale
disastrous in Norwegian is katastrofal, ulykksalig
disastrous in Spanish is catastrofico, desastroso

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