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desastroso

disastrous; catastrophic

adjective deh-sas-TROH-soh Rare
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Usage Note

Desastroso is a common intensifier in both formal and informal registers. The feminine form is desastrosa. It collocates with resultado (disastrous result), decisión (disastrous decision), and fracaso (disastrous failure). In colloquial speech it can also describe a person who is incompetent or accident-prone — closer to 'hopeless' in English (eres un desastre, you're a disaster).

Examples

"El partido fue desastroso para nuestro equipo."

Natural Translation

The match was disastrous for our team.

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