different between damaging vs disastrous

English

Etymology

damage +? -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dæm?d???/

Verb

damaging

1. present participle of damage

Adjective

damaging (comparative more damaging, superlative most damaging)

1. Harmful; injurious; causing damage.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:harmful

Antonyms

• beneficial (causing benefit)
• undamaging (causing no damage)

Translations

Noun

damaging (plural damagings)

1. An act of causing damage.
   • 1855, Charles Dickens, Household Words

     That immortal creature had gone over the proofs with great pains — had of course taken out the stiflings — hard-plungings, lungeings, and other convulsions — and had also taken out her weakenings and damagings of her own effects.

English

Etymology

From French désastreux, from Middle French desastre (“disaster”) (modern désastre), from Italian disastro, itself from dis- (“away, without”) (from Latin) + astro (“star, planet”) (from Latin astrum 'star, celestial body', from Ancient Greek (astron)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??z??st??s/

Adjective

disastrous (comparative more disastrous, superlative most disastrous)

1. Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
2. Foreboding disaster; ill-omened.

Synonyms

• (calamitous): cataclysmic, catastrophic
• (ill-omened): ill-boding, inauspicious, sinister

Antonyms

• auspicious
• fortunate

Derived terms

• disastrously

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