calamitous

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/kəˈlæmɪtəs/

adjective

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  1. 01

    adjective

    Causing great damage, suffering, or disaster.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Of a person: involved in a calamity; hence, distressed, miserable.

Examples

  • The calamitous event changed her life forever.

  • The earthquake had calamitous effects on town.

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Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meaning

  1. Causing or involving calamity; disastrous.

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In context

  • The volcanic eruption had calamitous effects on the nearby villages.

  • The city was struck by a calamitous cyclone.

  • The next year vvas calamitous, bringing ſtrange fluxes upon men, and murren upon Cattel.

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Origin

adjective

Borrowed from French calamiteux (“calamitous”) (see French -eux, English -ous), from Latin calamitōsus (“destructive, disastrous, ruinous, calamitous”), a contraction of calamitātōsus, from calamitāt- + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns); calamitāt- is the oblique stem of calamitās (“disaster, misfortune, calamity; damage, harm; loss”), from *calamis (“damaged”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat; to break”)) + -tās (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state). By surface analysis, calamity + -ous.