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adjective

Calamitous adj.

Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. (Obs.) "Ten thousands of calamitous persons."

Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy. "This sad and calamitous condition." "A calamitous prison"

Synonyms: Miserable; deplorable; distressful; afflictive; wretched; grievous; baleful; disastrous; adverse; unhappy; severe; sad; unfortunate.

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Etymology of 'Calamitous'

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"Calamitous" Quotes from Famous Books

... some of whom were even killed by his agents. Exasperated beyond endurance, the people of Possavina rose en masse, and although the movement was put down without difficulty, it doubtless paved the way for the discord and rebellion which has been attended with such calamitous results. This is precisely one of those cases which has brought such odium on the Turkish government, and which may so easily be avoided for the future, always providing that the Porte be sincere in its oft-repeated protestations of a desire for genuine reform. Ali Pacha was at ...

— Herzegovina - Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels • George Arbuthnot

... forward on the military turf and run him for the generalissimoship against the great Washington. But though they were not able to prosper him in this mad attempt, yet they so far succeeded as to get him the command of the army of Carolina, where his short and calamitous career soon caused every good patriot to thank God for continuing to his servant Washington, the ...

— The Life of General Francis Marion • Mason Locke Weems

... the Man of narrow Circumstances acts and speaks, is so feelingly set forth in a little Book called the Christian Hero, [1] that the appearing to be otherwise is not only pardonable but necessary. Every one knows the hurry of Conclusions that are made in contempt of a Person that appears to be calamitous, which makes it very excusable to prepare ones self for the Company of those that are of a superior Quality and Fortune, by appearing to be in a better Condition than one is, so far as such Appearance shall not make ...

— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele

... Many of the calamitous efforts of the tremendous revolution which has passed over the Southern States still remain. The immeasurable benefits which will surely follow, sooner or later, the hearty and generous acceptance of the legitimate results ...

— U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses • Various

... his breath and there burst upon him a perception of the results to which he was being committed by this calamitous reading. And also simultaneous the outbreak of the class into cachinnations of delight, severely repressed by the perplexed ...

— Penrod and Sam • Booth Tarkington

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