Synonyms 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

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

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

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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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   fortunate

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1. devasting

   Submitted by anonymous on December 17, 2019  

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1. calamitousadjective

   Synonyms:
   disastrous, unlucky, unfortunate, adverse, untoward, unhappy, unprosperous, hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, deplorable, ruinous, miserable, wretched, dreadful, distressful, afflictive, sad, grievous

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1. calamitousadjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "calamitous":

   disastrous, catastrophic, dire

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1. Cormac McCarthy:

   The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

2. Joan Laporta:

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

3. Joe Stork:

   The humanitarian picture in Falluja is bleak and getting bleaker, greater international attention to the besieged towns and cities of the region is needed or the results for civilians could be calamitous.

4. 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.

5. 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.