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| Main Entry: | catastrophic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | destructive |
| Synonyms: | calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, disastrous, fatal, ruinous, tragic, catastrophal |
| Main Entry: | calamitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disastrous; tragic |
| Synonyms: | adverse, deadly, deplorable, devastating, dire, fatal, grievous, harmful, heartbreaking, lamentable, messy, pernicious, regrettable, ruinous, unfavorable, unfortunate, woeful, afflictive, blighting, cataclysmic, catastrophic |
| Antonyms: | blessed, comforting, favorable, fortunate, happy, joyous, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | disastrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | detrimental, devastating |
| Synonyms: | adverse, calamitous, destructive, dire, dreadful, fatal, fateful, hapless, harmful, ill-fated, luckless, ruinous, terrible, tragic, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, untoward, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, ill-starred |
| Antonyms: | blessed, fortunate, lucky, miraculous, prosperous, successful, triumphant, winning, wondrous |
| Main Entry: | harmful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, hurtful |
| Synonyms: | adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, consumptive, corrupting, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, evil, incendiary, inimical, internecine, malicious, malignant, menacing, mischievous, murderous, nocuous, noxious, painful, pernicious, pestiferous, risky, ruinous, sinful, sinister, subversive, toxic, unhealthy, unsafe, unwholesome, virulent, cataclysmic, catastrophic, corroding, crippling, harassing, malefic, pestilential, undermining |
| Main Entry: | ill-fated/ill-starred |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doomed |
| Synonyms: | destroyed, disastrous, hapless, inauspicious, luckless, ruined, star-crossed*, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, blighted, catastrophic, ill-omened, misfortunate |
| Antonyms: | happy, lucky |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ruinous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disastrous, devastating |
| Synonyms: | baleful, baneful, calamitous, damaging, deadly, deleterious, dire, extravagant, fatal, fateful, harmful, hurtful, immoderate, injurious, murderous, noxious, pernicious, suicidal, unfortunate, wasteful, withering, annihilative, cataclysmic, catastrophic, crippling, depleting, draining, exhausting, impoverishing, shattering, wrackful |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, assisting, beneficial, helpful |
| Main Entry: | star-crossed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doomed |
| Synonyms: | cursed, damned, disastrous, ill-fated, luckless, unfortunate, unlucky, catastrophic, ill-omened, ill-starred, jinxed, misfortunate |
| Main Entry: | unlucky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfortunate, doomed |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, black, calamitous, cursed, dire, disastrous, hapless, ill-fated, inauspicious, luckless, miserable, ominous, star-crossed*, tragic, unfavorable, unhappy, unsuccessful, untimely, untoward, bad break, behind eight ball, cataclysmic, catastrophic, down on luck, hard luck, ill-starred, out of luck, tough luck |
| Antonyms: | fortunate, happy, lucky |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | woeful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | terrible, sad |
| Synonyms: | afflicted, appalling, awful, bad, calamitous, cruel, deplorable, disappointing, disastrous, disconsolate, disgraceful, distressing, doleful, dreadful, feeble, gloomy, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, heartrending, heartsick, hopeless, inadequate, lamentable, lousy*, mean, miserable, mournful, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, plaintive, poor, rotten, shocking, sorrowful, sorry, tragic, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched, agonized, anguished, catastrophic, grieving, pitiable, racked, tortured |
| Antonyms: | glad, happy, joyful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ill-fated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | doomed |
| Synonyms: | destroyed, disastrous, hapless, inauspicious, luckless, ruined, star-crossed, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, blighted, catastrophic, ill-omened, ill-starred, misfortunate |
| Main Entry: | destructive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, devastating |
| Synonyms: | baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, consumptive, cutthroat, damaging, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, dire, disastrous, evil, fatal, fell, harmful, hurtful, internecine, lethal, mortal, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, ruinous, suicidal, toxic, venomous, annihilative, cataclysmic, catastrophic, eradicative, extirpative, lethiferous, pestilential, slaughterous, wrackful, wreckful |
| Antonyms: | assisting, building, creative, helpful, productive, aiding |
| Main Entry: | fatal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadly, lethal |
| Synonyms: | baleful, baneful, calamitous, deathly, destructive, disastrous, fateful, final, ill-fated, incurable, inevitable, killing, malignant, mortal, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, poisonous, ruinous, terminal, virulent, cataclysmic, catastrophic, ill-starred, malefic, mortiferous, pestilential |
| Notes: | use fatal for something which has caused someone's death; use lethal for something which is capable of killing someone |
| Antonyms: | healthful, nourishing, vital, wholesome, life-giving |
| Main Entry: | dire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | terrible, ominous |
| Synonyms: | alarming, appalling, awful, black, calamitous, cruel, deplorable, depressing, disastrous, dismal, distressing, dreadful, fearful, fierce, frightful, gloomy, grievous, grim, heartbreaking, horrible, lamentable, portentous, redoubtable, regrettable, ruinous, shocking, terrific, ugly, unfortunate, woeful, afflictive, cataclysmic, catastrophic, horrid, oppressing, scowling |
| Antonyms: | fortunate, good, lucky, nice |
| Main Entry: | fateful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadly |
| Synonyms: | calamitous, destructive, disastrous, fatal, lethal, mortal, ominous, ruinous, cataclysmic, catastrophic |
| Antonyms: | healthful, healthy, life-giving |
| Main Entry: | costly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harmful, damaging |
| Synonyms: | deleterious, disastrous, ruinous, sacrificial, catastrophic, loss-making |
| Antonyms: | helpful, aiding |
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