Calamitous

Definition: Calamitous

Calamitous

Adjective

1. (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".

Date "calamitous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)

Etymology: Calamitous \Ca*lam"i*tous\, adjective. [Latin expression Calamitosus; compare to French calamiteux.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Calamitous

Synonyms: black (adj), disastrous (adj), fatal (adj), fateful (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Adversity	Adverse, untoward; disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable.
Pain	Ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical; desolating, withering; burdensome, onerous, oppressive; cumbrous, cumbersome.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Calamitous

English words defined with "calamitous": adversity ♦ black ♦ disastrous ♦ fatal, fateful ♦ Sad bread ♦ The evil one, To the bitter end. (references)

Specialty definitions using "calamitous": Natural Disasters ♦ Tempest ♦ Woods. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	A Calamitous Elopement (1908)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Distant Mirror the Calamitous Cen (reference) Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century (reference) Fade Out Calamitous Final Days of Mgm (reference) Georgia: Most Devastating Disasters and Most Calamitous Catastrophes (Georgia Books) (reference) Indiana Most Devastating Disasters and Most Calamitous Catastrophes (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Adams	1797-1801	During a period in which a great portion of the civilized world has been involved in a war unusually calamitous and destructive, it was not to be expected that the United States could be exempted from extraordinary burdens.
Rutherford Hayes	1877-1881	Many of the calamitous efforts of the tremendous revolution which has passed over the Southern States still remain.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Calamitous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Calamitous" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	42	52,864

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "calamitous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkatërrimtar (crushing, destructive, disastrous, fatal, internecine, killing, pestilent, pestilential, shattering, slaughterous, suicidal, vandalistic), katastrofik (catastrophic, disastrous), fatzi (unlucky), fatkeq (fortuneless, hapless, ill fated, ill-omened, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, washout, wretched). (various references)

Arabic		‏فاجع (afflictive, agonizing, catastrophic, distressing, grievous, painful, tragic), ‏مسبب كارثة (disastrous), ‏مصحوب بكارثة. (various references)

Bulgarian		бедствен (dire, disastrous), пагубен (baleful, baneful, damnific, detrimental, evil, fatal, fateful, homicidal, malign, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, ruinous, subversive). (various references)

Chinese		灾难 (Calamities, Calamity, Catastrophic). (various references)

Czech		neblahý (baleful, dire, fateful, hapless, harmful, ill fated, ill-starred, inauspicious, ominous, sinister, unfortunate, unlucky). (various references)

Farsi		فجیع (Disastrous, Tragic), پربلا (Disastrous), مصیبت بار, خطرناک (Disastrous, Dngerous, Grave, Herculean, Ill, Jeopardous, Malignant, Perilous, Serious, Venturesome), بدبختی اور. (various references)

Finnish		tuhoisa (destructive, disastrous, fatal). (various references)

French		catastrophiques, catastrophique (catastrophic), désastreux. (various references)

German		unheilvoll (baleful, disasterous, disasterously, disastrous, fatal, malign, ominous, ominuosly, portentous), elend (abject, awful, calamitously, calamitousness, confounded, destitution, dismal, distress, dreadful, hardship, meager, miserable, miserably, misery, penury, pitiable, pitiful, plight, poorly, poverty, sick, sordid, sordidness, squalid, squalor, unhappiness, woeful, woefully, woefulness, wretched, wretchedly, wretchedness). (various references)

Greek		καταστρεπτικόσ (catastrophic, destructive, disastrous), ολέθριοσ (baneful, disastrous, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, ruinous). (various references)

Hebrew		פורע� י (catastrophic, disastrous), אסו� י, �"ר�" אסון (catastrophic, disastrous, fatal), �"רס� י (destructive, disastrous, internecine, pernicious, ruinous). (various references)

Hungarian		szerencsétlen (catastrophic, disastrous, fey, hapless, ill fated, ill-starred, luckless, misadventurous, miserable, sad, star-crossed, stiff, to sink money in an unfortunate undertaking, unchancy, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, woeful, woesome, wretched), gyászos (doleful, elegiac, funereal, gray, grey, grim, lugubrious, mournful, rueful, tragic). (various references)

Indonesian		celaka (baleful, misfortune). (various references)

Italian		calamitoso. (various references)

Manx		seiyjagh (agitating, agitative, agitatorial, mournful, sad, sore, woeful), donney (bad, bad of food, ill-advised, inauspicious, unfortunate, very ill, woeful), arkyssagh (distressed, misfortunate, needy person, pauper). (various references)

Pig Latin		alamitouscay.(various references)

Portuguese		calamitoso (tragic, untoward). (various references)

Romanian		catastrofal, funest (baneful, deadly, disastrous, fatal, fateful, feral, sinister), dezastruos (cataclysmal, catastrophic, disastrous, disastrously, internecine, ruinous). (various references)

Russian		бедственный (catastrophic, disastrous, miserable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		porazan (crushing, disastrous, overpowering, overwhelming, withering), nesrećan (down in the mouth, fortuneless, graceless, inauspicious, infelicitous, miserable, unchancy, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky), koban (deathly, dire, fatal, fateful, malign, portentous, unhappy). (various references)

Spanish		calamitoso (dire). (various references)

Swedish		katastrofal (catastrophic, disasterous, disastrous). (various references)

Thai		ที่เป็นหายนะ. (various references)

Turkish		felâketli, belâlı (bully, difficult, hard bitten, pesky, plaguy, thorny, troublesome). (various references)

Ukranian		шкідливий (adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, cancerous, cankerous, damnific, deleterious, destructive, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, insanitary, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pestiferous, pestilent, sickly, unhealthy, wrongful), нещасливий (hapless, hoodoo, ill fated, ill-starred, infelicitous, luckless, unhappy, wanchancy), згубний (baneful, damnatory, damnific, damning, deleterious, destructive, fatal, holocaustal, holocaustic, maleficent, malign, malignant, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, prejudicial, prejudicious, ruinous, withering), бідолашний (caitiff, hapless, ill-starred, miserable). (various references)

Vietnamese		tai hại (baneful, disastrous, fatal, harm), gây thiệt hại; gây tai hoạ. (various references)

Welsh		trychinebus (disastrous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "calamitous": calamitously. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Calamitous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calamaitous, calamintous, Kalvaitis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "calamitous" (pronounced kula"mutus)
4	-u t u s	circuitous, duplicitous, emeritus, felicitous, fortuitous, gratuitous, gravitas, impetus, precipitous, prophetess, riotous, serendipitous, solicitous, ubiquitous.
3	-t u s	apparatus, apprentice, armistice, arthritis, asbestos, berettas, bronchitis, cactus, countess, detritus, encephalitis, eucalyptus, fetus, gastritis, glottis, gratis, hepatitis, hiatus, hostess, injustice, justice, laryngitis, lattice, lettuce, Lotus, malpractice, margaritas, mastoiditis, meningitis, momentous, notice, osteoarthritis, portentous, poultice, priestess, prospectus, robustas, situs, status, Stratus, tortoise, treatise.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-m-o-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: atomical, comatula, solatium.
	-3 letters: amatols, asocial, atomics, calamus, camails, catalos, citolas, coastal, cultism, lactams, locusta, maculas, mucosal, musical, oculist, osmatic, outsail, solatia, somatic, somital, stoical, talcous, talcums, ultimas.
	-4 letters: actual, alamos, almost, amatol, amicus, amusia, atomic, autism, calami, camail, camisa, casita, casual, catalo, caulis, causal, citola, claims, clouts, coalas, coatis, coital, coitus, costal, coulis, custom, cutlas, lactam, lamias, litmus, locums, locust, macula, maloti, mascot, mastic, miaous, miauls, misact, miscut, mosaic, moults, mucosa, mulcts, muscat, oscula, ostium, salami, scotia, sitcom, smalti, smalto, social, somata, stomal, talcum, tamals, ticals, toluic, ulamas, ultima, ultimo, umiacs.
	-5 letters: alamo, alias, alist, almas, altos, alums, amias, ascot, atlas, atmas, atoms, aulic, autos, calms, calos, camas, cauls, claim, clams, clast, clits, clots, clout, coala, coals, coast, coati, coats, coils, colas, colts, comal, comas, costa, culms, culti, cults, cutis, ictus, iotas, laics, lamas, lamia, limas, limos, litas, loams, locum, locus, lotas, lotic, lotus, louis, louts, mails, maist, malic, malts, mauls, mauts, miaou, miaul, micas, milos, milts, moats, moils, moist, molas, molts, moult, mulct, musca, music, octal, oculi, omasa, omits, osmic, ostia, salic, salmi, sault, scout, scuta, smalt, smolt, solum, stoai, stoic, stoma, sulci, sumac, tacos, tails, talas, talcs, talus, tamal, tamis, tical, toils, tolas, tolus, ulama, umiac.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-m-o-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: maculations.
	+2 letters: calamitously, calumniators, emasculation.
	+3 letters: accumulations, calumniations, emasculations.
	+4 letters: matriculations, miscalculation, musicalization.
	+5 letters: aluminosilicate, masculinization, miscalculations, musicalizations.
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