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disastress

disastress is the obsolete spelling of disastrous.

Meaning of disastrous

Adjective

disastrous (comparative more disastrous, superlative most disastrous)

  1. Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
    • In addition, he was also able to reinforce the unease among progressive Democratic-leaning voters over Clinton’s disastrous pro-interventionist positions, thereby suppressing turnout and encouraging third party support in some key swing states that made the difference in his Electoral College...2024 August 21, Daniel Falcone, “Trump Was Never a “Moderate” on Foreign Policy”, in Truthout
  2. Foreboding disaster; ill-omened.
    • A fearsome sight it was to behold how he swelled in his wrath, and his eyes blazed like disastrous stars at midnight, and being wood with anger he gnashed his teeth till the froth stood at his lips and slavered down his chin.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 27

Forms of disastress

comparativemore disastress
superlativemost disastress

Questions about disastress

What is disastress the obsolete spelling of?
Disastress is the obsolete spelling of disastrous.

Words near disastress in the dictionary

  1. disasterpieces
  2. disasters
  3. disasters waiting to happen
  4. disastre
  5. disastres
  6. disastress
  7. disastrophe
  8. disastrophes
  9. disastrous
  10. disastrously
  11. disastrousness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disastress (page history and authors); disastrous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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