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English Dictionary: calamitous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for calamitous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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" Synonym(s): black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Calamitous \Calam"itous\, 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. [bd]This sad and calamitous condition.[b8] --South. [bd]A calamitous prison[b8] --Milton. Syn: Miserable; deplorable; distressful; afflictive; wretched; grievous; baleful; disastrous; adverse; unhappy; severe; sad; unfortunate. -- {Calam"itously}, adv. -- {Calam"itousness}, n.