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Disastrophe

diz-a-stro-fee noun - an experience, person, thing or event that is worse than a disaster and a catastrophe combined.

Origin: from the root words 'disaster' and 'catastrophe'; first used on February 9th 2010 by a four-year old girl to describe her father's nose: "Daddy's nose is turning all red, it is a disastrophe!"

Often misspelled as and confused with "disastrophy" which refers to a trophy wife who has had too much plastic surgery.

1. a mind-boggling mess or tragedy on an epic scale: What is happening in Haiti is a disastrophe.

2. any misfortune, mishap, or failure; fiasco: My blind date was a disastrophe, he spent the whole night hitting on the waitress.

3. a potent mix of tragedy and stupidity; a clusterf@ck, particularly one containing an element of the absurd: The government's handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was a total disastrophe.

4. a particularly egregious fashion error; a "hot mess": That dress is a complete disastrophe, what were you thinking?!

related words:

disastropic(al) - adjective
disastrophically - adverb

synonyms: misfortune, calamity, tragedy, hot mess.
anonyms: triumph, victory, success.

by domesticgoddess February 10, 2010


Disastrophe

Both a disaster and a catastrophe.

Milt's attempt to start a Strip club using only dancers over the age of 60 was a Disastrophe!

by Manolo Cartegeña October 11, 2014


disastrophe

A misused or misplaced apostrophe

"Many people misuse their aposrtophe's when pluralising words"

by CryptoHobes December 05, 2003


disastrophe

When something's so bad that you can't decide between using disaster or catastrophe

Man, Bieber was such a disastrophe!

by crazyastrogirl October 09, 2015


disastrophe

Something like a catastrophe but 10x worse than a catastrophe

The Lebanon explosion is the biggest disastrophe

by Mark1106 May 05, 2023


Disastrophe

10x worse than neither a catastrophe nor disaster

The biggest Disastrophe is using terms that using grounded videos is the one

by Mark1106 May 05, 2023


Disastrophe

Adv.: When something goes so wrong that all hell breaks lose and shit gets fucked up

Holy shit, my in- laws are due to be here any minute and my boyfriend took a shit so big it clogged up the toilet and it over flowed. Now there's shit water everywhere! What a DISASTROPHE!!!!!

by B. Calico September 12, 2018