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.
Synonyms
apocalyptic, black, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, deadly, debacular, destructive, devastating, disadventurous, disastrous, eradicative, extirpative, fatal, fateful, harmful, lethal, pernicious, ruinous, woeful
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 14
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