calamitous 的定义
- causing or involving calamity; disastrous: a calamitous defeat.
calamitous 近义词
disastrous; tragic
更多calamitous例句
- One hypothesis that projected calamitous sea level rise is called the marine ice cliff instability.
- Here was a rare opportunity, many of us hoped, for humanity to pause and redress the calamitous harm it had long inflicted upon nature.
- Education leaders see it as a desperately needed remedy for a calamitous school year that left many students across the country struggling and falling behind.
- The protagonists are earnest rubes, the antagonists villainous caricatures, and as in Wolfe’s best-selling tomes, the unlikely subplots thread into a fiery, calamitous climax.
- Alayna Curry, an Orlando Health spokeswoman, said the hospital would not discuss Reggie’s calamitous birth, even though his mother has.
- As politicians, Clinton was capable where Ford was calamitous.
- Thus far the one thing we know for sure: a calamitous plunge in voter turnout, down 7.3 points from 2008 levels.
- There are two more interviews that go similarly—and even a calamitous speech given by both Bert Rodriguezes.
- Forced sterilisation was by far the most calamitous exercise undertaken during the Emergency.
- A second world war, he believed, would have calamitous effects, including imperiling his own children.
- Three calamitous invasions in one year might well have induced reflection in a statesmanlike mind.
- One disaster after another had left him with the belief that he was marked out by fate for calamitous fortunes.
- Her brother Rowsley might also be showing another sign of his calamitous condition.
- While under sentence of death, Blake did not show a concern proportioned to his calamitous situation.
- But we have nothing to do with the constitutionally luckless: the calamitous history of a simple empty stomach is enough.