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Definitions for calamitous
kəˈlæm ɪ təscalami·tous

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fatefuladjective

    (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"

Wiktionary

  1. calamitousadjective

    Concerning or involving calamity, disastrous.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Calamitousadjective

    Etymology: calamitosus, Lat.

    This is a gracious provision God Almighty hath made in favour of the necessitous and calamitous; the state of some, in this life, being so extremely wretched and deplorable, if compared with others. Edmund Calamy.

    What calamitous effects the air of this city wrought upon us the last year, you may read in my discourse of the plague. Gideon Harvey, on Consumptions.

    Strict necessity
    Subdues me, and calamitous constraint!
    Lest on my head both sin and punishment,
    However insupportable, be all
    Devolv’d. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. x. l. 132.

    Much rather I shall chuse
    To live the poorest in my tribe, than richest,
    And be in that calamitous prison left. John Milton, Agonistes.

    In this sad and calamitous condition, deliverance from an oppressour would have even revived them. South.

ChatGPT

  1. calamitous

    Calamitous refers to something causing great harm, damage, misfortune or disaster. It is typically used to describe events or situations that have extremely negative, severe or catastrophic consequences.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Calamitousadjective

    suffering calamity; wretched; miserable

  2. Calamitousadjective

    producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of calamitous in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of calamitous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of calamitous in a Sentence

  1. Joe Stork:

    The humanitarian picture in Falluja is bleak and getting bleaker, greater international attention to the besieged towns and cities of the region is needed or the results for civilians could be calamitous.

  2. David Axelrod:

    Even before we took office, we knew the economic catastrophe we were inheriting, which promised to be long and deep, meant we faced a calamitous midterm, that meant if we wanted to accomplish anything meaningful, it would have to come in the first two years, when we had large majorities in both chambers. It's why President Obama moved the Affordable Care Act when he did.

  3. Andrew Byrnes:

    Punditry needs to pundit, right, but that would be one of a variety of calamitous results, one of thousands of reasons why the recall needs to be defeated.

  4. Friedrich Nietzsche:

    Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. […] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.

  5. Cormac McCarthy:

    The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

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