calamitous

Betekenis (Engels)

1. Causing or involving calamity; disastrous.
2. (obsolete) Of a person: involved in a calamity; hence, distressed, miserable.

Concepten

catastrofaal

rampspoedig

rampzalig

sinister

desastreus

onheilspellend

funest

Tegenovergesteld aan

uncalamitous

Synoniemen

disastrous

ruinous

unfortunate

catastrophic

tragic

fatal

fateful

baneful

pernicious

miserable

very sad

black

destructive

ill-omened

mortal

noxious

perilous

pestiferous

pestilent

poor

prodigious

ruinously

scary

shocking

terrible

unexpected

unfortunately

unlucky

unsatisfactory

vicious

wicked

tally damaged

protentous

catastrophically

dangerous

desolating

devastating

disastrously

distressed

distressful

evil

frightful

hazardous

horrendous

horrible

Vertalingen

calamitoso

calamiteux

calamitoso

ολέθριος

désastreux

desastroso

rovinoso

funeste

elend

catastròfic

καταστρεπτικός

infortuné

desastrós

unheilvoll

desastroso

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/kəˈlæmɪtəs/

Etymologie (Engels)

Borrowed from French calamiteux (“calamitous”) (see French -eux, English -ous), from Latin calamitōsus (“destructive, disastrous, ruinous, calamitous”), a contraction of calamitātōsus, from calamitāt- + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns); calamitāt- is the oblique stem of calamitās (“disaster, misfortune, calamity; damage, harm; loss”), from *calamis (“damaged”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat; to break”)) + -tās (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state). By surface analysis, calamity + -ous.