Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in a disastrous manner;
- Example: "the real value of the trust capital may be disastrously less than when the trust began"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Disastrous \Dis*as"trous\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]sastreux. See
Disaster.]
1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious;
ill-boding. [Obs.]
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The moon
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton.
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2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate;
calamitous; ill-fated; ending in utter failure or ruin;
as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an
undertaking.
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Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. --Shak.
-- Dis*as"trous*ly, adv. -- Dis*as"trous*ness, n.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
disastrously
adv 1: in a disastrous manner; "the real value of the trust
capital may be disastrously less than when the trust
began"