aster

Usage

• disaster

  A disaster is something that happens that is very bad, such as a hurricane destroying a city or a tornado knocking down a home.

• asterisk

  The figure of a star, thus, ?, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character.

• asteroid

  shaped like a star

• disastrous

  Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding.