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多灾难的,不幸的
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Calamitous \Ca*lam"i*tous\, a. [L. Calamitosus; cf. F.
calamiteux.]
1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.]
Ten thousands of calamitous persons. --South.
2. Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making
wretched; wretched; unhappy. ``This sad and calamitous
condition.'' --South. ``A calamitous prison'' --Milton.
Syn: Miserable; deplorable; distressful; afflictive;
wretched; grievous; baleful; disastrous; adverse;
unhappy; severe; sad; unfortunate. --
{Ca*lam"i*tous*ly}, adv. -- {Ca*lam"i*tous*ness}, n.
资料来源 : WordNet®
calamitous
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" [syn: {black}, {disastrous}, {fatal}, {fateful}]