Antonyms for calamitous
kəˈlæm ɪ təscalami·tous

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1. calamitousadjective

   Synonyms:
   destructive, fatal

2. calamitousadjective

   Concerning or involving calamity, disastrous.

   Synonyms:
   destructive, fatal

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1. calamitous

   Antonyms:
   felicitous, fortunate, auspicious, favorable, propitious, advantageous

   Synonyms:
   disastrous, illfated, fatal, unlucky, hapless, unfortunate, inauspicious, troublous, illstarred, ill-omened

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1. black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fatefuladjective

   (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"

   Antonyms:
   fortunate

   Synonyms:
   pitch-dark, black-market, shameful, dim, fatal, inglorious, portentous, grim, blackened, fateful, black, dark, sinister, opprobrious, bootleg, disgraceful, smutty, contraband, pitch-black, foreboding(a), smuggled, ignominious, disastrous, bleak, mordant

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1. calamitousadjective

   Synonyms:
   disastrous, deplorable, baleful, ill-fated, untoward, dire

How to use calamitous in a sentence?

1. David Axelrod:

   Even before we took office, we knew the economic catastrophe we were inheriting, which promised to be long and deep, meant we faced a calamitous midterm, that meant if we wanted to accomplish anything meaningful, it would have to come in the first two years, when we had large majorities in both chambers. It's why President Obama moved the Affordable Care Act when he did.

2. Joan Laporta:

   There is no margin after a calamitous situation that was all down to the previous board of administration.

3. Boris Johnson:

   The euro is a calamitous project, it will limp on with sclerotic growth rates, it will eventually blow up but I wouldn't care to bet when.

4. Andrew Byrnes:

   Punditry needs to pundit, right, but that would be one of a variety of calamitous results, one of thousands of reasons why the recall needs to be defeated.

5. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. […] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it.

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