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desaströs

German, adjective/dezasˈtrøːs/

desaströs is spelled D-E-S-A-S-T-R-Ö-S (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 77,779th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Desaströs is a German adjective meaning “disastrous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “zu extremen Enttäuschungen, Mängeln, Zerstörungen führend”.

What does desaströs mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    disastrous

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. zu extremen Enttäuschungen, Mängeln, Zerstörungen führend

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of desaströs

  • desaströser masculine nominative singular
  • am desaströsesten superlative
  • desaströse feminine nominative singular
  • desaströses neuter nominative singular
  • desaströsen genitive masculine singular
  • desaströsem dative masculine singular
  • der desaströse definite includes-article masculine
  • die desaströse definite feminine includes-article
  • das desaströse definite includes-article neuter
  • die desaströsen definite includes-article nominative
  • des desaströsen definite genitive includes-article
  • der desaströsen definite feminine genitive
  • dem desaströsen dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce desaströs?

  • /dezasˈtrøːs/
  • [de.zasˈtʁøːs]
  • [də-]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to desaströs

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is desaströs in German?

desaströs appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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