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The meaning of CALAMITOUS is being, causing, or accompanied by calamity. How to use calamitous in a sentence.
A calamitous event is one that leads to a catastrophe — like the calamitous crashing of your parents' car into the garage door. Calamitous is an adjective that is generally used to describe events, and these events are disastrous or destructive.
See. calamity. Fewer examples. The team suffered a calamitous defeat yesterday. World oil markets over the years have weathered calamitous events. She was riding to the hospital on a bicycle and suffered a calamitous accident along the way. Global warming of five degrees could be calamitous.
If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective calamitous, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
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calamitous - (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 ...
