CALAMITOUS

black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful

(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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

calamitous (comparative more calamitous, superlative most calamitous)

Concerning or involving calamity, disastrous.

Synonyms

• destructive

• fatal

Source: Wiktionary

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Ca*lam"i*tous, a. Etym: [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; grievous; baleful; disastrous; adverse; unhappy; severe; sad; unfortunate.

– Ca*lam"i*tous*ly, adv.

– Ca*lam"i*tous*ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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