English-Thai Dictionary

calamitous

ADJ ที่ เป็น หายนะ  ที่ โชคร้าย อย่างมาก  disastrous ruinous unfortunate tee-pen-hai-ya-na

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CALAMITOUS

a. 1. Very miserable; involved in deep distress; oppressed with infelicity; wretched from misfortune; applied to men.
2. Producing distress and misery; making wretched; applied to external circumstances; as a calamitous event.
3. Full of misery; distressful; wretched; applied to state or condition.

 

CALAMITOUSLY

adv. In a manner to bring great distress.

 

CALAMITOUSNESS

n.Deep distress; wretchedness; misery; the quality of producing misery.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CALAMITOUS

Ca *lam "i *tous, a. Etym: [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; grievous; baleful; disastrous; adverse; unhappy; severe; sad; unfortunate. -- Ca *lam "i *tous *ly, adv. -- Ca *lam "i *tous *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

calamitous

ca lam i tous |kəˈlamitəs kəˈlæmɪtəs | ▶adjective involving calamity; catastrophic; disastrous: such calamitous events as fires, hurricanes, and floods. DERIVATIVES ca lam i tous ly adverb

 

Oxford Dictionary

calamitous

ca ¦lam |itous |kəˈlamɪtəs | ▶adjective involving calamity; catastrophic or disastrous: such calamitous events as fires, hurricanes, and floods. DERIVATIVES calamitously adverb

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

calamitous

calamitous adjective their calamitous adventure became legendary: disastrous, catastrophic, cataclysmic, devastating, dire, tragic; literary direful.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

calamitous

calamitous adjective the consequences of his decision were calamitous: disastrous, catastrophic, cataclysmic, devastating, dire, tragic, fatal, ruinous, crippling, awful, dreadful, terrible, woeful, grievous; literary direful. ANTONYMS good, advantageous.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

calamitous

ca lam i tous /kəlǽmətəs /形容詞 ｟かたく ｠ «…にとって » 不幸な, 悲惨な, 災難をもたらす «to » .～ly 副詞