disastrously

C2+ Topic:Safety & Risk

US /dɪˈzæstrəsli/ UK /dɪˈzɑːstrəsli/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adv
in a way that causes great damage, ruin, or failure

The campaign was disastrously timed and lost them every key vote.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adv · in a way that causes great... catastrophically calamitouslyruinouslytragicallycataclysmicallyfatally

Opposites

successfully fortunately favorably triumphantly

Word family

Related forms disaster disastrous

Etymology

From disastrous (from Italian disastroso / Old French desastreux) plus -ly; ultimately from disaster, from Italian disastro ('ill-starred event'), from dis- ('bad') plus astro ('star'), from Latin astrum, Greek astron.

disastro Italian astrum Latin ástron Ancient Greek

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Safety & Risk Word Formation & Derivatives

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# disastrously

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adv
**IPA (US):** /dɪˈzæstrəsli/
**IPA (UK):** /dɪˈzɑːstrəsli/

## Meanings
1. in a way that causes great damage, ruin, or failure

## Examples
- The campaign was disastrously timed and lost them every key vote.

## Synonyms
- catastrophically
- calamitously
- ruinously
- tragically
- cataclysmically
- fatally

## Antonyms
- successfully
- fortunately
- favorably
- triumphantly

## Related Forms
- disaster
- disastrous

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: disastro
- Root: astrum
- Root: ástron

## Etymology
From disastrous (from Italian disastroso / Old French desastreux) plus -ly; ultimately from disaster, from Italian disastro ('ill-starred event'), from dis- ('bad') plus astro ('star'), from Latin astrum, Greek astron.

## AI Etymology
Disastrously comes from disastrous (from Italian disastroso / Old French desastreux) plus -ly; ultimately from disaster, from Italian disastro ('ill-starred event'), from dis- ('bad') plus astro ('star'), from Latin astrum, Greek astron. The etymological trail includes Italian disastro, Latin astrum, and Ancient Greek ástron. As an adverb, disastrously means in a way that causes great damage, ruin, or failure. The same family is visible in related forms such as disaster and disastrous.

## Topics
- Safety & Risk
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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