Definitions for: Calamitous

[adj] (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"

Webster (1913) Definition: Ca*lam"i*tous, a. [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, adv. -- Ca*lam"i*tous*ness, n.

Synonyms: black, disastrous, fatal, fateful, unfortunate

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