Definition of CALAMITOUS

calamitous

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

  • (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; ; ; ; - Charles Darwin; - Douglas MacArthur
    • "a calamitous defeat"

Adj

  • Causing or involving calamity; disastrous.
  • Of a person: involved in a calamity; hence, distressed, miserable.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from French calamiteux (“calamitous”) (see French -eux, English -ous), from Latin calamitōsus (“destructive, disastrous, ruinous, calamitous”), a contraction of calamitātōsus, from calamitāt- + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns); calamitāt- is the oblique stem of calamitās (“disaster, misfortune, calamity; damage, harm; loss”), from *calamis (“damaged”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat; to break”)) + -tās (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state). By surface analysis, calamity + -ous.

Antonyms

uncalamitous

Scrabble Score: 14

calamitous is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
calamitous is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
calamitous is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 18

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