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Harrowing vs Disastrous - What's the difference?

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Harrowing is a related term of disastrous.


As adjectives the difference between harrowing and disastrous

is that harrowing is causing pain or distress while disastrous is of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.

As a verb harrowing

is .

As a noun harrowing

is the process of breaking up earth with a harrow.

harrowing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing pain or distress.
  • * 2006 , , Concrete: Killer Smile , Dark Horse Books, cover text
    • Harrowing journeys down the dark roads of anger, violence, and madness
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
    • , author=Brian Hayes , title=Father of Fractals , volume=101, issue=1, page=62 , magazine= citation , passage=Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
    • The field received two harrowings .

    disastrous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
  • foreboding disaster; ill-omened.

    • Synonyms

    * (calamitous) cataclysmic, catastrophic * (ill-omened) ill-boding, , sinister

    Derived terms

    * disastrously