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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
Etymology
Adjective
calamitous (comparative more calamitous, superlative most calamitous)
Concerning or involving calamity, disastrous.
Synonyms
• destructive
• fatal
Source: Wiktionary
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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DITHER
(noun) an excited state of agitation; “he was in a dither”; “there was a terrible flap about the theft”
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