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calamitous

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ca·lam·i·tous  (k-lm-ts)
adj.
Causing or involving calamity; disastrous.
ca·lami·tous·ly adv.
ca·lami·tous·ness n.
calamitous
Adjective
resulting in or from disaster: the country's calamitous economic decline
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Adj.1.calamitous - (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"
disastrous, fatal, fateful, black
unfortunate - not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned"
calamitous
adjective disastrous, terrible, devastating, tragic, fatal, deadly, dreadful, dire, catastrophic, woeful, ruinous, cataclysmic << OPPOSITE fortunate
Translations
calamitous [kəˈlæmɪtəs] adj → calamitoso
calamitous [kəˈlæmɪtəs] adj → catastrophique, désastreux/euse
calamitous [kəˈlæmɪtəs] adj → katastrophal
calamitous [kəˈlæmɪtəs] adj → disastroso/a


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The moan of that wounded beast (the French army) which betrayed its calamitous condition was the sending of Lauriston to Kutuzov's camp with overtures for peace.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous.
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison by Madison, James View in context
Nicholson's; he was well acquainted with the tale of John's calamitous disappearance from Edinburgh; and putting one thing with another, hasted with the first word of this scandal, not to the police, but to his friend.
Tales and Fantasies by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
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