Found 3 items, similar to calamitous.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: calamitous celaka
English → English (WordNet) Definition: calamitous calamitous adj : (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” [syn: black, disastrous, fatal, fateful]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Calamitous Calamitous \Ca*lam"i*tous\, a. [L. Calamitosus; cf. F. calamiteux.] [1913 Webster] 1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Ten thousands of calamitous persons. --South. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]