What is another word for calamitous?
Synonyms for calamitous
kəˈlæm ɪ təscalami·tous
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calamitousadjective
Synonyms:
destructive, fatalcalamitousadjective
Concerning or involving calamity, disastrous.
Synonyms:
destructive, fatal
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
calamitous
Synonyms:
disastrous, illfated, fatal, unlucky, hapless, unfortunate, inauspicious, troublous, illstarred, ill-omenedAntonyms:
felicitous, fortunate, auspicious, favorable, propitious, advantageous
Princeton's WordNet
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, mordantAntonyms:
fortunate
Editors Contribution
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
calamitousadjective
Synonyms:
disastrous, unlucky, unfortunate, adverse, untoward, unhappy, unprosperous, hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, deplorable, ruinous, miserable, wretched, dreadful, distressful, afflictive, sad, grievous
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
calamitousadjective
Synonyms:
disastrous, deplorable, baleful, ill-fated, untoward, dire
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List of paraphrases for "calamitous":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#271 | black | |
#1640 | dark | |
#8192 | fatal | |
#9389 | dim | |
#12840 | unfortunate | |
#13351 | destructive | |
#14856 | grim | |
#16120 | dire | |
#18988 | catastrophic | |
#19559 | sinister | |
#22839 | disastrous | |
#25029 | bleak | |
#25042 | bootleg | |
#29867 | shameful | |
#32663 | unlucky | |
#34766 | blackened | |
#41643 | contraband | |
#42259 | fateful | |
#43288 | hapless | |
#45257 | disgraceful | |
#45349 | smuggled | |
#117416 | mordant | |
#121753 | ignominious | |
#127931 | calamitous | |
#129078 | portentous | |
#137695 | inauspicious | |
#140999 | smutty | |
#157749 | inglorious | |
#285694 | opprobrious | |
#301343 | troublous |
How to use calamitous in a sentence?
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.
The internal effects of a mutable policy are [...] calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what it will be tomorrow.
There is no margin after a calamitous situation that was all down to the previous board of administration.
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.
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.
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