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CALAMITOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does calamitous mean?
• CALAMITOUS (adjective)
The adjective CALAMITOUS has 1 sense:
1. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
Familiarity information: CALAMITOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
Synonyms:
black; calamitous; disastrous; fatal; fateful
Context example:
a fateful error
Similar:
unfortunate (not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune)
Derivation:
calamity (an event resulting in great loss and misfortune)
Context examples
Some flickering efforts to spare you the premature knowledge of his calamitous position, you may observe in him this day; but hope has sunk beneath the horizon, and the undersigned is Crushed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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