About The Word Calamitous
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Calamitous
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What's The Definition Of Calamitous?
[adj] (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Calamitous: black | disastrous | fatal | fateful | unfortunate Related Terms | Find terms related to Calamitous: afflictive | awful | baneful | black | cataclysmal | cataclysmic | catastrophic | consuming | consumptive | deadly | demolishing | demolitionary | depredatory | desolating | destroying | destructive | devastating | dire | disastrous | distressful | distressing | doomful | dreadful | fatal | fateful | fratricidal | grievous | heartbreaking | internecine | lamentable | nihilist | nihilistic | pernicious | ravaging | regrettable | ruining | ruinous | self-destructive | subversionary | subversive | suicidal | terrible | tragic | unfortunate | vandalic | vandalish | vandalistic | wasteful | wasting | withering | woeful | wreckful See Also | Calamitous In Webster's Dictionary \Ca*lam"i*tous\, a. [L. Calamitosus; cf. F.
calamiteux.]
1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.]
Ten thousands of calamitous persons. --South.
2. Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making
wretched; wretched; unhappy. ``This sad and calamitous
condition.'' --South. ``A calamitous prison'' --Milton.
Syn: Miserable; deplorable; distressful; afflictive;
wretched; grievous; baleful; disastrous; adverse;
unhappy; severe; sad; unfortunate. --
{Ca*lam"i*tous*ly}, adv. -- {Ca*lam"i*tous*ness}, n.
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