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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Calamitous \Ca*lam"i*tous\, adjective [L. Calamitosus; cf. F. calamiteux.]
1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.]
Ten thousands of calamitous persons. --South.
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}, adverb -- {Ca*lam"i*tous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
calamitous
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}, {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
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