disastrously

1. 1.

   in a disastrous manner

   “the real value of the trust capital may be disastrously less than when the trust began”

Questions about disastrously

What does disastrously mean?

disastrously means "in a disastrous manner".

How many syllables are in disastrously?

disastrously has 4 syllables: di-sas-trou-sly. The stress falls on "sas". In IPA it is /dɪˈzæstɹəsli/.

Is disastrously a common word?

disastrously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.