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calamitous

[ kuh-lam-i-tuhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

causing or involving calamity; disastrous:
a calamitous defeat.
Synonyms: catastrophic, devastating, ruinous
Antonyms: advantageous, beneficial

calamitous

/ kəˈlæmɪtəs /

First recorded in 1535–45; calamit(y) + -ous

As politicians, Clinton was capable where Ford was calamitous.

Thus far the one thing we know for sure: a calamitous plunge in voter turnout, down 7.3 points from 2008 levels.

There are two more interviews that go similarly—and even a calamitous speech given by both Bert Rodriguezes.

Forced sterilisation was by far the most calamitous exercise undertaken during the Emergency.

A second world war, he believed, would have calamitous effects, including imperiling his own children.

Three calamitous invasions in one year might well have induced reflection in a statesmanlike mind.

One disaster after another had left him with the belief that he was marked out by fate for calamitous fortunes.

Her brother Rowsley might also be showing another sign of his calamitous condition.

While under sentence of death, Blake did not show a concern proportioned to his calamitous situation.

But we have nothing to do with the constitutionally luckless: the calamitous history of a simple empty stomach is enough.

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