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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.] [ 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] 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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