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calamitous    音标拼音: [kəl'æmətəs]
a. 多灾难的,不幸的

多灾难的,不幸的

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" [synonym: {black}, {calamitous}, {disastrous},
{fatal}, {fateful}]

Calamitous \Ca*lam"i*tous\, a. [L. Calamitosus; cf. F.
calamiteux.]
[1913 Webster]
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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52 Moby Thesaurus words for "calamitous":
afflictive, awful, baneful, black, cataclysmal, cataclysmic,
catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, demolishing,
demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive,
devastating, dire, disastrous, distressful, distressing, doomful,
dreadful, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, grievous, heartbreaking,
internecine, lamentable, nihilist, nihilistic, pernicious,
ravaging, regrettable, ruining, ruinous, self-destructive,
subversionary, subversive, suicidal, terrible, tragic, unfortunate,
vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, withering,
woeful, wreckful

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