causing great damage 灾难性的 a disastrous fire swept through the museum. 一场火灾扫荡了博物馆。 ■(informal)highly unsuccessful (非正式)非常失败的 United made a disastrous start to the season. 联合公司在这个季节开始就很不成功。
派生 disastrously adverb 语源
late 16th cent. (in the sense 'ill-fated'): from French désastreux, from Italian disastroso, from disastro 'disaster'