calamitous
/kəˈlamɪtəs
/adjective
Involving calamity; catastrophic or disastrous: such calamitous events as fires, hurricanes, and floods...
- If there is to be a winner, it could be the result of a calamitous error or disastrous lack of discipline.
- After a calamitous decline in the value two years ago, it's now more stable.
- The area has entered an anxious era of landslides since the calamitous landslides of 1978.
Synonyms
disastrous, catastrophic, cataclysmic, devastating, dire, tragic, fatal, ruinous, crippling, awful, dreadful, terrible, woeful, grievous
literary direful
Derivatives
calamitously
- If Carey has done something so calamitously wrong that this severe a punishment is handed out then damn him.
- People have suddenly and calamitously, for the stores concerned, stopped shopping.
- The television network was forced, calamitously, to admit that the memos at the heart of the story were probably forged.
- put the screws on
- put the skids under
- put the squeeze on
- put the tin lid on
- put-through
- puttied
- puttin'-aff
- putting cleek
- putting club
- putting green
- putting hole
- putting iron
- putting-off
- putting on
- putting stone
- Puttnam, Sir David
- putto
- puttock
- put-together
- puttony
- puttoo
- put to rout
- put to the sword
- put to the torch (or put a torch to)
- puttu