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Meanings of calamitous in anglès
(Of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin.
Related terms
Sinònims
Examples for "black"
Examples for "black"
1
The pet was now in the arms of the woman in black.
2
Tinaja similar in form and size to the preceding; black polished ware.
3
Brief shots of black-clad armed men standing at attention, pleased; general joy.
4
Look at your boat, sir; you in the red and black caps.
5
This is not a black-and-white 1930s issue, this is a global issue.
1
None of the cases was fatal or led to long-term health problems.
2
Risk: 5 percent of test subjects experience a fatal cardiac volume increase.
3
It is unnecessary; it puts us in the wrong; it is fatal.
4
Last year fatal accidents in the workplace rose by 60 per cent.
5
It's only the second fatal-free day in the state since July 13.
1
Mere words will not bring an end to our current disastrous situation.
2
His disastrous Rubicon speech in August 1985 was a case in point.
3
Professor Clements said similar operations over the past decade had been disastrous.
4
His disastrous economic management is tempered against his impressive rise to power.
5
Sanders says that permanent normal trade relations with China have been disastrous.
1
Polanski was absent that fateful evening, working on a film in Europe.
2
After finishing work on that fateful day, he unwittingly contaminated his home.
3
No one knows exactly what happened to you on that fateful night.
4
Perhaps a local matchmaker who knew both families made the fateful introduction.
5
And that was how the fateful idea came to the Brimley Bomefields.
Usage of calamitous in anglès
1
However, the plant already had a somewhat calamitous history-in1982, Reactor No.
2
However, corruption within the utility has manifested itself in many calamitous forms.
3
But the long years of European equivocation and denial have proved calamitous.
4
The chances of a calamitous outcome, with poisonous long-term results, are high.
5
The loss of Fabianski, who returned in goal against Leicester, proved calamitous.
6
She knows the latter will be calamitous and will oppose it sincerely.
7
He fell a victim to the calamitous event which occurred in Campania.
8
Such calamitous predictions are natural, but they are none the less absurd.
9
In part because of an abject, calamitous opening day defeat to Burnley.
10
Is it a matter of election or something more calamitous or dramatic?
11
There was a basic calamitous breakdown in the fabric of our system.
12
The picture given us of their sufferings is truly calamitous and deplorable.
13
Through its whiskers the calamitous object chattered effervescently and waved its hands.
14
Unless they are promptly suppressed the trouble may assume really calamitous proportions.
15
He opened a tavern, which proved more calamitous than the former undertaking.
16
Besides, the incorporation of Finland took place at a calamitous juncture-forRussia.
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Calamitous across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common