Disastrous
adjective
Causing great harm or damages.
The hurricane had disastrous effects on the city.
adjective
Complete failure.
His attempt to bake a cake was disastrous.
adjective
Causing great harm or damages.
The hurricane had disastrous effects on the city.
adjective
Complete failure.
His attempt to bake a cake was disastrous.
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Pro Tip 1/3Extreme Harm
Used to describe events with extreme negative outcomes, often beyond repair.
The forest fire was disastrous for the wildlife.
Pro Tip 2/3News Reports
Commonly used in news to describe severe natural disasters or accidents.
A disastrous earthquake shook the capital city.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphatic Description
Highlights the severity of a situation, stronger than just 'bad' or 'damaging'.
Their decision to ignore the warnings proved disastrous.
Pro Tip 1/3Extreme Harm
Used to describe events with extreme negative outcomes, often beyond repair.
The forest fire was disastrous for the wildlife.
Pro Tip 2/3News Reports
Commonly used in news to describe severe natural disasters or accidents.
A disastrous earthquake shook the capital city.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphatic Description
Highlights the severity of a situation, stronger than just 'bad' or 'damaging'.
Their decision to ignore the warnings proved disastrous.
Pro Tip 1/3Extreme Harm
Used to describe events with extreme negative outcomes, often beyond repair.
The forest fire was disastrous for the wildlife.
Pro Tip 2/3News Reports
Commonly used in news to describe severe natural disasters or accidents.
A disastrous earthquake shook the capital city.
Pro Tip 3/3Emphatic Description
Highlights the severity of a situation, stronger than just 'bad' or 'damaging'.
Their decision to ignore the warnings proved disastrous.
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Eric X. Li: A tale of...
Institutionally, new rules get enacted to correct previous dysfunctions. For example, term limits. Political leaders used to retain their positions for life, and they used that to accumulate power and perpetuate their rules. Mao was the father of modern China, yet his prolonged rule led to disastrous mistakes.
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What if cracks in...
tiny cracks can be just as dangerous. Concrete is often used as a secondary support around steel reinforcements. In this concrete, even small cracks can channel water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide that corrode the steel and lead to disastrous collapse.
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Nature's Oddest Looking...
even their chicks with such a small population this new threat could see the cassowary disappear forever from Australia which would be disastrous for this ancient rainforest the castle is crucial for the Daintree rainforest to
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Giant Cassowaries are...
depend on they can eat their eggs and even their chicks with such a small population this new threat could see the cassowary disappear forever from Australia which would be disastrous for this ancient rainforest the caster is
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The sound of things not...
wasn't quite right but did nothing many of us of course won't have to work in situations quite as critical or disastrous as those but we all live and work in places where something is begging to be said and the magic of
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Is it possible to lose...
a juice diet might be helpful. But for someone high in vitamin A, juicing could be disastrous. And regardless of personal nutrition, maintaining a juice diet over multiple weeks is likely to compromise the immune system
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Beloved Rhino Prepares...
horns over 70 percent of the entire world population is in one park in india and if that park got hit by disease flooding civil war it could be disastrous and if that happened captive-bred rhinos like behan's baby
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Mating frenzies, sperm...
And when a disastrous flood drowns their home, the sisters band together into a massive living raft— carrying their queen to safety. But no matter how resilient, the life of a colony must come to an end.
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Millions of Salmon...
share and when you look at the cosmos and the universe is around us it's an anomaly it's it's it's something so unique that has come together from so many thousands of potential disastrous
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Plague 101 PIPE National...
Economic expansion, urbanization, and a lack of medical knowledge contributed to the disastrous spread of plague. In turn, however, the disease helped catapult
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Eric X. Li: A tale of...
Institutionally, new rules get enacted to correct previous dysfunctions. For example, term limits. Political leaders used to retain their positions for life, and they used that to accumulate power and perpetuate their rules. Mao was the father of modern China, yet his prolonged rule led to disastrous mistakes.
Video examples
What if cracks in...
tiny cracks can be just as dangerous. Concrete is often used as a secondary support around steel reinforcements. In this concrete, even small cracks can channel water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide that corrode the steel and lead to disastrous collapse.
Video examples
Nature's Oddest Looking...
even their chicks with such a small population this new threat could see the cassowary disappear forever from Australia which would be disastrous for this ancient rainforest the castle is crucial for the Daintree rainforest to
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Giant Cassowaries are...
depend on they can eat their eggs and even their chicks with such a small population this new threat could see the cassowary disappear forever from Australia which would be disastrous for this ancient rainforest the caster is
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The sound of things not...
wasn't quite right but did nothing many of us of course won't have to work in situations quite as critical or disastrous as those but we all live and work in places where something is begging to be said and the magic of
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Is it possible to lose...
a juice diet might be helpful. But for someone high in vitamin A, juicing could be disastrous. And regardless of personal nutrition, maintaining a juice diet over multiple weeks is likely to compromise the immune system
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Beloved Rhino Prepares...
horns over 70 percent of the entire world population is in one park in india and if that park got hit by disease flooding civil war it could be disastrous and if that happened captive-bred rhinos like behan's baby
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Mating frenzies, sperm...
And when a disastrous flood drowns their home, the sisters band together into a massive living raft— carrying their queen to safety. But no matter how resilient, the life of a colony must come to an end.
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Millions of Salmon...
share and when you look at the cosmos and the universe is around us it's an anomaly it's it's it's something so unique that has come together from so many thousands of potential disastrous
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Plague 101 PIPE National...
Economic expansion, urbanization, and a lack of medical knowledge contributed to the disastrous spread of plague. In turn, however, the disease helped catapult
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James Nesbitt
Irish Actor
Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.
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Theodore Dalrymple
English Writer
The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
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.
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Thomas Merton
American Author
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.
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Natalia Kills
English Musician
My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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Margot Fonteyn
English Dancer
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
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Grant Shapps
British Politician
I believe that investing in welfare is crucial - but I also believe that it only works if you're getting help to those who need it. If you're doing it with no results, it's disastrous.
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Ayn Rand
Russian Writer
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.
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Gza
American Musician
Some of us don't respect water. We waste it and pour it out. But a lot of disastrous stuff involves water. Tsunamis. Hurricanes.
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Taylor Caldwell
American Author
My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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James Nesbitt
Irish Actor
Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.
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Theodore Dalrymple
English Writer
The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be written, is an old one with disastrous implications. I do not think though that the cults you mention could survive honest thought about human nature.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
American President
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.
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Thomas Merton
American Author
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.
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Natalia Kills
English Musician
My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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Margot Fonteyn
English Dancer
The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.
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Grant Shapps
British Politician
I believe that investing in welfare is crucial - but I also believe that it only works if you're getting help to those who need it. If you're doing it with no results, it's disastrous.
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Ayn Rand
Russian Writer
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.
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Gza
American Musician
Some of us don't respect water. We waste it and pour it out. But a lot of disastrous stuff involves water. Tsunamis. Hurricanes.
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Taylor Caldwell
American Author
My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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