meaning of calamitous
1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable.
2. Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy.
3. 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
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