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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Causing or involving calamity; disastrous.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Miserable; involved in calamity or deep distress; wretched.
  2. Of the nature of or marked by calamity or great misfortune; bringing or resulting from calamity; making wretched; distressing or distressful: as, a calamitous event; “that calamitous prison,” Milton, S.A.,1. 1480; “this sad and calamitous condition,” South.
  3. Synonyms Afflictive, disastrous, distressing, grievous, deplorable, baleful, ruinous.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Concerning or involving calamity, disastrous.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable.
  2. adj. Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

Etymologies

  1. From calamity +‎ -ous (Wiktionary)

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