calamitous

Meaning

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

Opposite of

uncalamitous

Synonyms

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

Translations

calamitoso

calamitoso

calamiteux

ολέθριος

désastreux

catastrofaal

rovinoso

rampspoedig

funeste

elend

catastròfic

καταστρεπτικός

desastrós

unheilvoll

infortuné

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˈlæmɪtəs/

Etymology

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.