calamitous English

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What does calamitous mean?

calamitous

— adjective (= black, disastrous, fatal, fateful) (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

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calamitous English » English

disastrous

ruinous

unfortunate

tragic

fatal

catastrophic

fateful

very sad

pernicious

miserable

destructive

black

baneful

wicked

vicious

unsatisfactory

unlucky

unfortunately

unexpected

terrible

tally damaged

shocking

scary

ruinously

protentous

prodigious

poor

pestilent

pestiferous

perilous

noxious

mortal

ill-omened

horrible

horrendous

hazardous

frightful

evil

distressful

distressed

disastrously

devastating

desolating

dangerous

catastrophically