calamitous
calamitous
Definition
ca·lami·tous (kə lam′ə təs)
adjective
causing or bringing calamity
Etymology: MFr calamiteux < L calamitosus
ca·lam′i·tously adverb
calamitous
Synonyms
calamitous
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- mistake: Since his calamitous mistake in the World Cup Final, Oliver Kahn's life has spun out of control.
- consequence: Tony Blair's New Labor has taken us to war five times in the last six years, each time with calamitous consequences.
- effect: Failure to find a way to trade fairly will have a calamitous effect on small countries like ours.
- result: Such a destruction has only ever occurred, to date, under Communism - with calamitous results.
- failure: Any attack against Iraq that allows Saddam Hussein to be spirited into the mountains will be deemed a calamitous failure.
Modifying Another Word
- potentially: But the terminator technology could also spread to neighboring food crops, with potentially calamitous effects on food production.
- often: Premonition A premonition occurs when future events, often calamitous in nature, are foreknown via individual psychic experience.
Used with adjective complement
- prove: On 13th September, 1645, at Philiphaugh outside Selkirk, this was to prove calamitous.
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