Hyphenation of Disaster

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word Disaster? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

Dis-as-ter

Definitions of Disaster:

1.	A state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune Lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system His policies were a disaster
2.	An event resulting in great loss and misfortune The whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity The earthquake was a disaster
3.	An act that has disastrous consequences

Synonyms of Disaster:

noun	catastrophe, adversity, hardship, hard knocks
noun	calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, cataclysm, misfortune, bad luck
noun	destruction, devastation

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.