"disastrously" meaning in English

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Adverb

IPA: /dɪˈzæs.tɹəs.li/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Qwertygiy-disastrously.wav Forms: more disastrously [comparative], most disastrously [superlative]
Etymology: From disastrous + -ly. Etymology templates: {{af|en|disastrous|-ly|id2=adverbial}} disastrous + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} disastrously (comparative more disastrously, superlative most disastrously)
  1. In a disastrous way. (Of the nature of a disaster; calamitously.) Synonyms: apocalyptically, calamitously, cataclysmically, catastrophically, destructively, devastatingly, disastrously, perniciously, ruinously Related terms: disaster, disastrous Translations (in a disastrous way): desastrosament (Catalan), rampzalig (Dutch), desastrosamente (Galician), katasztrofálisan (Hungarian), desastrosamente (Portuguese), desastrosamente (Spanish)

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