Calamitous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Calamitous \Ca*lam"i*tous\, a. [L. Calamitosus; cf. F.
     calamiteux.]
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     1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.]
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              Ten thousands of calamitous persons.  --South.
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     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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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" [syn: {black}, {disastrous}, {fatal}, {fateful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "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