calamitous
    adj 1: (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" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous,
           fatal, fateful]

Calamitous \Ca*lam"i*tous\, a. [L. Calamitosus; cf. F.
   calamiteux.]
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   1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.]
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            Ten thousands of calamitous persons.  --South.
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   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.
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