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 Definitions of calamitous  [əˈlæm ɪ təs]  

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Definition of 'calamitous' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (adj.) calamitous
causing or involving calamity; disastrous.

Etymology:  (1535–45)

Definition of 'calamitous' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (adj) black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
(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"
Definition of 'calamitous' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) calamitous
suffering calamity; wretched; miserable

2. (adj) calamitous
producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy
Translation of 'calamitous' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a great misfortune
It will be a calamity if he fails his exam.
Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: rampspoedig Arabic flag Arabic: كَثيرُ البَلايا، مليئ بال Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: пагубен
Brazilian flag Brazilian: calamitoso Czech flag Czech: nešťastný, katastrofální German flag German: unheilvoll
Danish flag Danish: katastrofal Greek flag Greek: ολέθριος Spanish flag Spanish: calamitoso
Estonian flag Estonian: õnnetusttoov Farsi flag Farsi: اسف بار؛ مصیبت بار Finnish flag Finnish: tuhoisa
French flag French: désastreux Hebrew flag Hebrew: מֵמִיט אָסוֹן, חָמוּר Hindi flag Hindi: दु:खद
Croatian flag Croatian: nesretan,žalostan, koban Hungarian flag Hungarian: szerencsétlen Indonesian flag Indonesian: mengandung bencana
Icelandic flag Icelandic: hörmungar- Italian flag Italian: calamitoso Japanese flag Japanese: 災難の
Korean flag Korean: 재앙을 가져오는 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: pražūtingas Latvian flag Latvian: postošs; nelaimi nesošs
Malay flag Malay: kecelakaan Dutch flag Dutch: rampzalig Norwegian flag Norwegian: katastrofal, fatal
Polish flag Polish: nieszczęsny Persian flag Persian: اسف بار؛ مصیبت بار Pashto flag Pashto: غمجن
Portuguese flag Portuguese: desastroso Romanian flag Romanian: dezastruos Russian flag Russian: катастрофический
Slovak flag Slovak: katastrofálny Slovenian flag Slovenian: katastrofalen Serbian flag Serbian: koban
Swedish flag Swedish: olycklig, olycksbringande Thai flag Thai: ซึ่งเลวร้าย Turkish flag Turkish: feci, felâket doğuran
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 災難的 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: тяжкий, злигодній Urdu flag Urdu: آفت زدہ ، مصیبت زدہ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: thiệt hại Chinese flag Chinese: 灾难的

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