What is the meaning of calamitous?

adjective

  • Of events. ( having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin)
    • usage: "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"
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