adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bad/poor/disastrous start
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Things got off to a bad start when two people turned up late.
a disastrous defeat (= very big, and with a very bad result )
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The party suffered a disastrous defeat in the 2006 election.
disastrous (= a very bad effect )
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His leg injury had a disastrous impact on his career as a footballer.
disastrous/dire consequences (= very bad and damaging )
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If temperatures continue to rise, it could have disastrous consequences for agriculture.
disastrous/spectacular etc flop
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The film was a complete flop.
with disastrous results
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The parachute failed to open properly, with disastrous results.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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And his love-life's almost as disastrous as yours.
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If something ever happened it would probably turn out to be as disastrous as the Quebec Bridge, you know, so.
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Wars are almost as disastrous for wildlife as they are for humans.
most
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I975 had been one of the most disastrous ever at Lotus.
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Behind it lay a tumultuous precedent-one of the most disastrous incidents to beset the face of the earth.
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Our most disastrous Rannoch cottage was little better than a derelict shack, owned by an hotel in Aberfeldy.
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The earliest and most disastrous of these emulations took place in the isolated village of Bognor.
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It is time to shut nuclear power down, and begin the task of decommissioning Britain's most disastrous experiment.
potentially
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The implications of such a view were potentially disastrous for positivist criminology.
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An investigation of the causes of the charring, a potentially disastrous situation, is under way.
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Better that negotiations should break down than such difficulties be suppressed: a merger which fails is potentially disastrous .
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Colds, flu or any ailment that diminishes vocal stamina and luster are potentially disastrous .
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It is important that the profession makes the public aware that the effect of increasing understaffing is potentially disastrous .
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The silly boy might have made potentially disastrous mistakes, but he had preserved the basis of his claim.
■ NOUN
consequence
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And who can fail to see the disastrous consequences ?
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Each man lacks the stamina to confront the disastrous consequences of unbridled and law-breaking greed.
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I remember November 5, 1953, when a tendency to clear up had rather a disastrous consequence .
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It would, however, have disastrous consequences for the poor and in the long term for society as a whole.
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This can have disastrous consequences for growing horses who need calcium for bone formation.
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Declines in stocking levels can also have disastrous consequences if combined with tourist use.
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Environmentalists warn that deforestation of this critical watershed area could have disastrous consequences for downstream regions.
effect
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Diarrhetic shellfish toxins have had a disastrous effect on the seafood industry in many parts of the world.
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That very inevitability is being challenged today by the accumulation of disastrous effects on body, nature, and place.
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The epidemic is having a disastrous effect on the tourist industry.
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But human variability can also result in system performance that is disorganized, with negative or even disastrous effects .
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The resultant high temperatures and high humidities could have had a disastrous effect on both land and marine faunas.
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These new forests have also had a disastrous effect on the quality of loch fishing.
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That would have a disastrous effect on economic development.
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The corruption had a disastrous effect on quality.
fire
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In 1898, six years after Spurgeon's death, the building suffered a disastrous fire and had to be rebuilt.
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It would have prospered had it not been for the disastrous fire of 1935 that largely destroyed it.
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The bakery's expansion plans come just eighteen months after the business was hit by a disastrous fire .
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Frauenfeld was unlucky in the eighteenth century when two disastrous fires wiped out most of the town.
marriage
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You would have been my second disastrous marriage .
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Was it a disastrous marriage or the betrayal of a good girl?
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Hosea uses the bold image of his own disastrous marriage to an unfaithful woman.
result
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It was concealed, with disastrous results , for Culpepper and Dereham were executed on 1 December 1540.
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He worked the bellows furiously, with disastrous results .
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The mistakes of fragmentation have already been made in London, with disastrous results for cycling facilities.
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Labor unions continue to wage these dismal quarrels against management with almost uniformly disastrous results for the workers and their communities.
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She saw them just as they saw her, and waved to them - with disastrous results .
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Another theory is the parachute which drags the load out may have failed to open properly with disastrous results .
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Hoare became Foreign Secretary instead, with disastrous results .
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A small percentage of women have found that their immunity has worn off with disastrous results .
start
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Gustavsson made a disastrous start in men's K1 by falling in and being left behind.
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After a disastrous start , the target was slashed to a mere 14m.
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Now Whittingham is the target for Brian Clough to help end his side's disastrous start to the season.
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It is doubtful that auctioneer John Marion had ever presided over such a disastrous start to an auction.
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And he was credited with turning round Channel Four News after a disastrous start .
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Instead he will join First Division big spenders Derby, who have made a disastrous start to their multi-million pound promotion campaign.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a disastrous early marriage
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A disastrous fire destroyed much of the city in the early 1900s.
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A disastrous pesticide spill killed all water life along 40 miles of the river.
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Much of the damage wrought by the disastrous three-day storm was still apparent.
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There was a fault in the engine design, which had disastrous consequences.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He worked the bellows furiously, with disastrous results.
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I can see that for the marine fishkeeper, a bad test kit could be disastrous .
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So I am hoping, sirs, that you can decide between their claims, and avoid such a disastrous outcome.
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To have had more public spending rather than less would have been disastrous .
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Used carelessly, they can be disastrous for companies, governments, and investors.