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List of meaning for calamitous

involving catastrophe

black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful(adj)

(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 will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"

bringing about ruin or misfortune

a calamitous decision to sell their products online exclusively ruined the business

causing or tending to cause destruction

a calamitous flood that destroyed the town's central business district

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