disasters

nounaccident, trouble

Antonyms for disasters

Word Origin & History

1590s, from Middle French désastre (1560s), from Italian disastro "ill-starred," from dis-, here merely pejorative (see dis-) + astro "star, planet," from Latin astrum, from Greek astron (see star (n.)). The sense is astrological, of a calamity blamed on an unfavorable position of a planet.

Example Sentences fordisasters

Perhaps so; only his slowness is marked with blood and disasters.

And then her gay and happy spirit clouded by his own disasters!

Who could tell what accidents, what disasters might not happen?

There was nothing exceptional about it, terrible as have been the disasters now and then resulting.

Disasters will go on about you as they go on about me, and about us all.

Poor soul, he thought, her coming to the farm had been one series of disasters.

But the heart of Creede, ordinarily so tender, was hardened by his disasters.

Whatever other disasters overhung him, he was at least not dead.

Many were the mishaps and disasters that his music warded off.

It is work above all else that saves us from the disasters of conflicting thought.