Vocabulary
Disastrous
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
causing great damage.
Urdu meaning
تباہ کن، مصیبت انگیز، ہلاکت خیز
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Pressing ahead without public consent can prove disastrous in case unforeseen challenges end up complicating operational aims.
- [said] that any other course would be economically disastrous ....
- In fact, the PTI`s disastrous falling out with the establishment continues to hit the party, if not the entire country.
- But, then, how does this disastrous and constitutionally untenable `hybrid model` keep returning and upstaging a fledgling democracy?
- The US has also not dissuaded Tel Aviv from its disastrous plan to take over Gaza City and eventually reoccupy the entire Strip.
Synonyms
catastrophic, calamitous, cataclysmic, tragic, devastating, ravaging, ruinous
Antonyms
fortunate, successful, beneficial
Curator example
“a disastrous fire swept through the museum”
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