Dis-ās'troŭs, a.

adjective

a. [Fr. désastreux, Pr. désastruc, Sp. & Pg. desastroso, It. disastroso. See supra.]

Sense 1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. [Obs.]

The moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton.

Sense 2. Attended with suffering or disaster; unfortunate; calamitous.

A disastrous green jerkin, which had been changed to a hundred hues by wind and rain. W. Scott.