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Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding.

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  1. a. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding.
  2. a. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking.
  3. adj. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
  4. 1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. [Obs.] The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton. 2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking. Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. Shak. -- Dis*as"trous*ly, adv. -- Dis*as"trous*ness, n.
  5. j:100 s (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin