'Calamitous' definitions:
Definition of 'calamitous'
From: WordNet
adjective
(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, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful]
Definition of 'Calamitous'
From: GCIDE
- Calamitous \Ca*lam"i*tous\, a. [L. Calamitosus; cf. F. calamiteux.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Ten thousands of calamitous persons. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'calamitous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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