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How to spell disastrous
Disastrous is spelled D-I-S-A-S-T-R-O-U-S.
What it means: Having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences.
In a sentence: The storm was so disastrous that it blew the roof off the house.
The part people get wrong
Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.
Same family: disaster, disastrously, catastrophic, ruinous, devastating. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Disastrous” comes from the word “disaster,” which originally meant a bad ‘star’ or unlucky astrological event in Italian and French. The suffix “-ous” turns the noun into an adjective, meaning ‘full of disaster’ or ‘causing disaster.’
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