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calamitous

/kuh-lam-i-tuhs/US // kəˈlæm ɪ təs //UK // (kəˈlæmɪtəs) //

灾难性的,灾难性,灾害性的,灾害性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : causing or involving calamity; disastrous: a calamitous defeat.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.disastrous; tragic

Examples

  • 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.