What is another word for calamitous?
1788 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ kɐlˈamɪtəs], [ kɐlˈamɪtəs], [ k_ɐ_l_ˈa_m_ɪ_t_ə_s]
Calamitous is an adjective that denotes a situation or an event that is disastrous or tragic. There are several synonyms for the word "calamitous" that can help writers convey the gravity of a situation effectively. Catastrophic, disastrous, tragic, and devastating are some of the synonyms that can be used in place of calamitous. These synonyms emphasize the severity of a situation, and the impact it can have on individuals or communities. Other synonyms for calamitous include dire, grave, fatal, and terrible. Using these words can help to create a sense of urgency and gravity in writing.
Synonyms for Calamitous:
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adj.
• adverse- adverse ,
- antipathetic ,
- burdensome ,
- catastrophic ,
- detrimental ,
- difficult ,
- distressful ,
- hard ,
- inauspicious ,
- miserable ,
- opposing ,
- perilous ,
- troublesome ,
- unfriendly ,
- unpropitious ,
- untoward .
- abominable ,
- atrocious ,
- bad ,
- damnable ,
- disgraceful ,
- foul ,
- heinous ,
- hideous ,
- loathsome ,
- maleficent ,
- monstrous ,
- nefarious ,
- no good ,
- offensive ,
- repellent ,
- reprehensible ,
- repugnant ,
- repulsive ,
- revolting ,
- sinful ,
- sinister ,
- terrible ,
- wicked .
- dis agreeable ,
- dis pleasing ,
- dis tasteful ,
- dis-agreeable ,
- dis-pleasing ,
- dis-tasteful ,
- galling ,
- in clement ,
- in temperate ,
- in tense ,
- in tenser ,
- in-clement ,
- in-temperate ,
- in-tense ,
- in-tenser ,
- in-tensest ,
- un palatable ,
- un pleasant ,
- un-palatable ,
- un-pleasant .
- de solating ,
- de-solating ,
- more annihilating ,
- more desolating ,
- more mortifying ,
- most annihilating ,
- most desolating ,
- most mortifying .
- de pressing ,
- de-pressing ,
- more oppressing ,
- more scowling ,
- most oppressing ,
- most scowling ,
- re doubtable ,
- re-doubtable .
- doleful ,
- heart rending ,
- more dolent ,
- more dolesome ,
- more dolorific ,
- more heart rending ,
- more heart-rending ,
- most dolent ,
- most dolesome ,
- most dolorific ,
- most heart rending ,
- most heart-rending ,
- ruthful .
- in curable ,
- in evitable ,
- in-curable ,
- in-evitable ,
- killing ,
- more killing ,
- more mortiferous ,
- most killing ,
- most mortiferous .
- dis quieting ,
- dis-quieting ,
- more afflicting ,
- more wounding ,
- most afflicting ,
- most wounding ,
- up setting ,
- up-setting .
- god awful ,
- more god awful ,
- more god-awful ,
- more hurting ,
- most god awful ,
- most god-awful ,
- most hurting .
- dis composing ,
- dis heartening ,
- dis-composing ,
- dis-heartening ,
- more dejecting ,
- more discomposing ,
- more disheartening ,
- more saddening ,
- most dejecting ,
- most discomposing ,
- most disheartening ,
- most saddening ,
- tear jerking ,
- tearful ,
- tearjerking .
- dis commodious ,
- dis-commodious ,
- in advisable ,
- in convenient ,
- in expedient ,
- in opportune ,
- in-advisable ,
- in-convenient ,
- in-expedient ,
- in-opportune ,
- more discommodious ,
- more unpromising ,
- most discommodious ,
- most unpromising ,
- un favorable ,
- un friendlier ,
- un friendliest ,
- un promising ,
- un seasonable ,
- un seemlier ,
- un seemliest ,
- un seemly ,
- un suited ,
- un timelier ,
- un timeliest ,
- un timely ,
- un-favorable ,
- un-fit ,
- un-friendlier ,
- un-friendliest ,
- un-friendly ,
- un-promising ,
- un-seasonable ,
- un-seemlier ,
- un-seemliest ,
- un-suited ,
- un-timelier ,
- un-timeliest ,
- un-timely .
- in appropriate ,
- in bad way ,
- in-appropriate ,
- jinxed ,
- more jinxed ,
- more shattered ,
- more unprosperous ,
- most jinxed ,
- most shattered ,
- most unprosperous ,
- out luck ,
- star crossed ,
- starcrossed ,
- un becoming ,
- un fortunate ,
- un prosperous ,
- un successful ,
- un suitable ,
- un-becoming ,
- un-fortunate ,
- un-prosperous ,
- un-successful ,
- un-suitable .
Other synonyms:
- frightful .
Other relevant words:
- abandon ,
- abasement ,
- abhorrent ,
- abjection ,
- abominably ,
- abrasive ,
- abrupt ,
- abusive ,
- abysmally ,
- accidental injury ,
- acerb ,
- acerbic ,
- acid ,
- acrid ,
- acrimonious ,
- acuate ,
- acute accent ,
- acutely ,
- afoul ,
- african-american ,
- agitating ,
- agitative ,
- ague ,
- aid ,
- ailing ,
- ailment ,
- al qaeda ,
- al qaida ,
- alas ,
- alkali ,
- all important ,
- all-important ,
- amazing ,
- amiss ,
- amytal ,
- anarchist ,
- annoyance ,
- antibiotic drug ,
- antipathetical ,
- apart ,
- approximate ,
- approximative ,
- arch ,
- arduous ,
- aristocratic ,
- aristocratical ,
- arsonist ,
- ascetic ,
- ascetical ,
- assist ,
- assistance ,
- assistant ,
- astute ,
- atrociously ,
- atrophy ,
- avail ,
- average ,
- averse ,
- awe-inspiring ,
- awed ,
- awesome ,
- awing ,
- awry ,
- back up ,
- backbreaking ,
- bad luck ,
- badmouth ,
- badness ,
- baffling ,
- bag ,
- balefulness ,
- bang-up ,
- banging ,
- barbarian ,
- barbaric ,
- barbarous ,
- barbed ,
- bare ,
- barely ,
- barren ,
- basal ,
- base of operations ,
- baseborn ,
- basis ,
- bastardly ,
- beast ,
- becloud ,
- bedim ,
- bedraggled ,
- beetle-browed ,
- befog ,
- befoul ,
- beggarly ,
- belated ,
- belatedly ,
- benighted ,
- bereaved person ,
- bestial ,
- big ,
- bitingly ,
- bitterly ,
- bitterness ,
- black bile ,
- black-market ,
- blackball ,
- blacken ,
- blackguard ,
- blackness ,
- blamable ,
- blameable ,
- blameful ,
- blasphemous ,
- blast ,
- blasting ,
- blazing ,
- blighter ,
- blind ,
- blinding ,
- blistering ,
- bloke ,
- bloodcurdling ,
- blot out ,
- blue air ,
- blue angel ,
- blue devil ,
- blue sky ,
- blue-blooded ,
- blueing ,
- blueish ,
- blueness ,
- bluing ,
- bluish ,
- blunder ,
- blur ,
- boding ,
- boisterous ,
- boob ,
- bothersome ,
- bowelless ,
- brassy ,
- bribe ,
- broken in ,
- broken-down ,
- brokenhearted ,
- brooding ,
- broody ,
- brutally ,
- brute ,
- brutish ,
- bully ,
- bum ,
- bumpy ,
- bunglesome ,
- busted ,
- butcherly ,
- buy ,
- cachexia ,
- cachexy ,
- capital ,
- cataclysm ,
- catastrophe ,
- catching ,
- cause of death ,
- caustic ,
- censurable ,
- cernuous ,
- chance event ,
- chap ,
- charnel ,
- cheating ,
- cheesy ,
- chinchy ,
- chintzy ,
- choke ,
- choke off ,
- clamant ,
- clapperclaw ,
- clayey ,
- cleanup ,
- clog ,
- clog up ,
- cloggy ,
- cloud ,
- clumsy ,
- coal black ,
- coarse ,
- cogent ,
- combat injury ,
- commiseration ,
- communicable ,
- compassion ,
- compassionate ,
- complaint ,
- computer error ,
- concentrated ,
- concluding ,
- condemn ,
- condemnable ,
- condole with ,
- confuse ,
- confused ,
- congest ,
- contaminant ,
- contaminate ,
- contaminating ,
- contemplative ,
- contractable ,
- contrarily ,
- contrariwise ,
- contrite ,
- contumely ,
- contuse ,
- contusion ,
- corking ,
- corn liquor ,
- cornerstone ,
- corpulent ,
- correct ,
- corrosion ,
- corrosive ,
- corrupted ,
- corruptive ,
- corruptness ,
- counter ,
- cowardly ,
- cracking ,
- crappy ,
- creaky ,
- crimson ,
- crisp ,
- crook ,
- crooked ,
- crucify ,
- cruddy ,
- crude ,
- crummy ,
- crushed ,
- culpable ,
- curst ,
- cuss ,
- cut down ,
- cutting ,
- damnatory ,
- damned ,
- dandy ,
- darkness ,
- dazzling ,
- dear ,
- dearly-won ,
- deathlike ,
- debase ,
- debasement ,
- debauch ,
- decay ,
- decayed ,
- decease ,
- decisive ,
- declension ,
- declination ,
- decline in quality ,
- declivity ,
- decrepit ,
- decry ,
- deep ,
- defective ,
- deficient ,
- defile ,
- degeneracy ,
- degrading ,
- demeaning ,
- demise ,
- demolition ,
- demoralise ,
- demoralising ,
- demoralize ,
- demoralizing ,
- dense ,
- depleted ,
- deplorably ,
- depopulate ,
- depot ,
- deprave ,
- depraved ,
- depressed ,
- depression ,
- derelict ,
- descent ,
- desert ,
- despairing ,
- despicable ,
- despiteful ,
- despondent ,
- destroyed ,
- detestable ,
- detrimentally ,
- deucedly ,
- devastate ,
- devastation ,
- devilishly ,
- devilment ,
- devilry ,
- deviltry ,
- diestrous ,
- diestrual ,
- dilapidated ,
- diminution ,
- dimmed ,
- dingy ,
- dioestrual ,
- dip ,
- dirty ,
- disabling ,
- disadvantageously ,
- disconcerting ,
- disconfirming ,
- disconsolate ,
- discriminating ,
- diseased ,
- disfavor ,
- disfavour ,
- disgustful ,
- disgusting ,
- dismaying ,
- disordered ,
- dispirited ,
- disqualify ,
- disruptive ,
- distasteful ,
- distressed ,
- do-or-die ,
- dolourous ,
- done for ,
- doomed ,
- dope ,
- dour ,
- down ,
- down in the mouth ,
- downcast ,
- downhearted ,
- downslope ,
- drab ,
- drag through the mud ,
- draining ,
- dread ,
- dreaded ,
- dreadfully ,
- drear ,
- drooping ,
- drop ,
- drop the ball ,
- dull ,
- dumb ,
- dying ,
- dysphoric ,
- earnestly ,
- ebony ,
- edged ,
- electronegative ,
- elusive ,
- embarrassing ,
- enceinte ,
- end ,
- engrave ,
- entail ,
- envenom ,
- equipment casualty ,
- erosion ,
- erosive ,
- erroneous belief ,
- erroneousness ,
- essential ,
- establish ,
- evilness ,
- exacting ,
- exceedingly ,
- exceptionable ,
- excessive ,
- excoriate ,
- excruciating ,
- exorbitant ,
- expectant ,
- expiry ,
- extortionate ,
- extraordinary ,
- extreme point ,
- extremely ,
- extremum ,
- exuberant ,
- facilitate ,
- faint ,
- fall ,
- faller ,
- fallible ,
- falsely ,
- fantastic ,
- fault ,
- fearsome ,
- feckless ,
- fecklessly ,
- feel for ,
- fella ,
- felled seam ,
- fellow ,
- felon ,
- felonious ,
- feral ,
- ferocious ,
- fetid ,
- filthy ,
- final exam ,
- final examination ,
- finished ,
- firebomb ,
- firebug ,
- firmly ,
- first ,
- first gear ,
- flash ,
- flashy ,
- flea-bitten ,
- fleshy ,
- floor ,
- fly ,
- flyblown ,
- foetid ,
- fog ,
- foot ,
- forbidding ,
- forged ,
- former ,
- formidable ,
- forsake ,
- fortuity ,
- foul-smelling ,
- fouled ,
- found ,
- foundation ,
- fragile ,
- frail ,
- free-base ,
- frightfully ,
- fulgent ,
- fundament ,
- funky ,
- furious ,
- furrowed ,
- gamey ,
- gamy ,
- garish ,
- gaudy ,
- gent ,
- gentle ,
- ghoulish ,
- gimcrack ,
- glary ,
- gloomful ,
- glooming ,
- glowering ,
- go down ,
- good ,
- good-for-naught ,
- good-for-nothing ,
- goof ,
- goon ,
- gory ,
- grampus ,
- grand ,
- grandiloquent ,
- grating ,
- gratingly ,
- grave accent ,
- gravelly ,
- gravid ,
- grease one's palms ,
- groovy ,
- gross ,
- grotesque ,
- ground ,
- groundwork ,
- grudge ,
- grueling ,
- gruelling ,
- hag-ridden ,
- hagridden ,
- hair-raising ,
- hard knocks ,
- hard put ,
- hard-pressed ,
- hardship ,
- have in mind ,
- haywire ,
- haze over ,
- heavily ,
- heavy-laden ,
- hellish ,
- help oneself ,
- helper ,
- heroic ,
- hexed ,
- hidden ,
- hide ,
- high-priced ,
- high-risk ,
- home ,
- homicidal ,
- hood ,
- hoodlum ,
- hooligan ,
- horribly ,
- horrific ,
- howling ,
- humble ,
- humbled ,
- humbling ,
- humiliated ,
- humiliating ,
- humongous ,
- hurt ,
- icky ,
- ill at ease ,
- ill luck ,
- ill service ,
- ill turn ,
- ill-scented ,
- ill-sorted ,
- ill-timed ,
- ill-treat ,
- ill-treatment ,
- ill-usage ,
- ill-use ,
- immense ,
- immoral ,
- immorality ,
- impaired ,
- impairment ,
- impenetrable ,
- imperfect ,
- impish ,
- implike ,
- imply ,
- important ,
- impoverished ,
- improbable ,
- in earnest ,
- inapplicable ,
- inapt ,
- incapacitating ,
- incendiary bomb ,
- incisive ,
- incitive ,
- incompatible ,
- incorrect ,
- incredible ,
- indecent ,
- indecorous ,
- indescribable ,
- indispose ,
- indisposed ,
- individual ,
- ineffable ,
- inexcusable ,
- inexorable ,
- inexpensive ,
- infective ,
- infirm ,
- inflammatory ,
- infrastructure ,
- injure ,
- injured ,
- injustice ,
- insalubrious ,
- insanely ,
- inscribe ,
- insecure ,
- insidious ,
- insistent ,
- instant ,
- instigative ,
- insubstantial ,
- insult ,
- insurgent ,
- intemperately ,
- intend ,
- intense ,
- irritating ,
- irritation ,
- isolated ,
- jejune ,
- jet black ,
- jolting ,
- jolty ,
- joseph black ,
- juicy ,
- jumpy ,
- just ,
- keen ,
- kill ,
- killer whale ,
- knifelike ,
- knockout ,
- knotty ,
- labored ,
- laborious ,
- laboured ,
- lad ,
- laid low ,
- lame ,
- lamentably ,
- large ,
- lascivious ,
- last ,
- lately ,
- later ,
- latterly ,
- lay waste to ,
- laying waste ,
- leaden ,
- legal injury ,
- leveling ,
- libidinous ,
- life-sustaining ,
- life-threatening ,
- lifelessly ,
- light ,
- lightlessness ,
- lively ,
- loaded down ,
- loath ,
- loathly ,
- loathsomeness ,
- logger ,
- loss ,
- loth ,
- loud ,
- lousiness ,
- lovelorn ,
- low gear ,
- low-pitched ,
- low-toned ,
- lowering ,
- lowly ,
- lumbering ,
- lumberjack ,
- lumberman ,
- lunger ,
- lurid ,
- lustful ,
- macabre ,
- maculate ,
- madly ,
- majuscule ,
- malefactor ,
- maleficence ,
- maltreat ,
- maltreatment ,
- marked-up ,
- marvellous ,
- marvelous ,
- massive ,
- meagerly ,
- meagre ,
- mean value ,
- meanspirited ,
- measly ,
- meditative ,
- meek ,
- melancholiac ,
- melanise ,
- melanize ,
- meretricious ,
- meritless ,
- minacious ,
- minatory ,
- mingy ,
- minus ,
- mischance ,
- mischief-making ,
- mischievousness ,
- miscreant ,
- misdirect ,
- miserly ,
- mishap ,
- mismated ,
- misplay ,
- mist ,
- mistake ,
- mistreat ,
- misuse ,
- modest ,
- monolithic ,
- moo ,
- moody ,
- moonshine ,
- mordacious ,
- moth-eaten ,
- mourning ,
- musing ,
- mussy ,
- naughtily ,
- naughty ,
- nauseating ,
- nauseous ,
- neat ,
- needlelike ,
- nefariousness ,
- negatively charged ,
- negligible ,
- negro ,
- negroid ,
- nerveless ,
- nervous ,
- net ,
- nettlesome ,
- neutral ,
- nifty ,
- night ,
- nighttime ,
- nipping ,
- no-account ,
- no-count ,
- nodding ,
- nonnatural ,
- not bad ,
- noxiously ,
- nucleotide ,
- obese ,
- objurgate ,
- obliterate ,
- obstinate ,
- obtuse ,
- of late ,
- of the essence ,
- offence ,
- offend ,
- offended ,
- offense ,
- old ,
- onionskin ,
- opponent ,
- opposite ,
- orca ,
- otherworldly ,
- out or keeping ,
- outlaw ,
- outstanding ,
- over-the-top ,
- overblown ,
- overcloud ,
- overpowering ,
- overweening ,
- overweight ,
- pain ,
- pass up ,
- pathologic ,
- pathological ,
- pathos ,
- patrician ,
- peachy ,
- peaked ,
- pedestal ,
- pendulous ,
- penetrating ,
- penetrative ,
- person ,
- perturbing ,
- perverse ,
- perversive ,
- pervert ,
- perverted ,
- pesky ,
- pestering ,
- piercing ,
- piercingly ,
- pillory ,
- pitch blackness ,
- pitch-black ,
- pitiless ,
- pixilated ,
- plaguey ,
- plaguy ,
- poisonous substance ,
- pole ,
- pollute ,
- pollution ,
- pompous ,
- pondering ,
- ponderous ,
- pontifical ,
- poop ,
- poor people ,
- prankish ,
- precarious ,
- precipitous ,
- prejudicious ,
- premature ,
- prematurely ,
- premonition ,
- presentiment ,
- preset ,
- press ,
- pressure ,
- previous ,
- price ,
- pricey ,
- pricy ,
- privation ,
- problematic ,
- problematical ,
- prodigal ,
- prodigious ,
- profane ,
- profligate ,
- profound ,
- puckish ,
- pugnacious ,
- pungent ,
- punishing ,
- punk ,
- purely ,
- puritanic ,
- puritanical ,
- putrefaction ,
- putrescence ,
- putridness ,
- putting to death ,
- queasy ,
- quelling ,
- rabble-rousing ,
- rachitic ,
- racy ,
- radical ,
- radix ,
- raging ,
- rank ,
- rascality ,
- rasping ,
- raspingly ,
- raspy ,
- rattling ,
- ratty ,
- raunchy ,
- ravage ,
- raw ,
- razing ,
- rebarbative ,
- recent ,
- recently ,
- red ,
- red region ,
- reflective ,
- refuse ,
- regrettably ,
- reject ,
- relentless ,
- remorseful ,
- remorseless ,
- repellant ,
- repelling ,
- repulsiveness ,
- resistant ,
- revelatory ,
- revengeful ,
- reverse ,
- revilement ,
- revolutionary ,
- revolutionist ,
- ridiculous ,
- rigorously ,
- riotous ,
- risque ,
- rocky ,
- roguery ,
- roguishness ,
- root ,
- root word ,
- rotted ,
- rottenly ,
- rottenness ,
- rotund ,
- rough in ,
- rough out ,
- roughly ,
- roughneck ,
- roughshod ,
- rowdy ,
- rubber ,
- ruffian ,
- ruffianly ,
- ruin ,
- ruination ,
- ruminative ,
- run ,
- ruth ,
- sable ,
- salacious ,
- sanguinary ,
- sanguineous ,
- sapless ,
- saturnine ,
- savagely ,
- scarce ,
- scarcely ,
- scathe ,
- score ,
- scourge ,
- scratch ,
- scratchy ,
- scrimpy ,
- sculpt ,
- sculpture ,
- scummy ,
- scurrilous ,
- scurvy ,
- sea wolf ,
- seamy ,
- sedate ,
- seditious ,
- seedy ,
- sepulchral ,
- serve ,
- service ,
- shabbiness ,
- shadow ,
- shadowy ,
- shaky ,
- shame ,
- sharp-worded ,
- sharply ,
- shenanigan ,
- shitty ,
- shoddy ,
- short ,
- shout ,
- shrewd ,
- shrill ,
- sick ,
- sickly ,
- sidesplitting ,
- signify ,
- silly ,
- sine ,
- sinfulness ,
- sinning ,
- skanky ,
- slap-up ,
- slayer ,
- sleazy ,
- slight ,
- sliminess ,
- slimy ,
- slow ,
- slump ,
- slur ,
- small ,
- smashing ,
- smelly ,
- smitten ,
- sober ,
- soberly ,
- solemn ,
- somebody ,
- someone ,
- sonorous ,
- soot black ,
- sore ,
- sorrowing ,
- soul ,
- sound ,
- sour ,
- spartan ,
- speculative ,
- spendthrift ,
- spicy ,
- spite ,
- spoil ,
- spoiled ,
- spoilt ,
- squalid ,
- stabbing ,
- staidly ,
- stand ,
- stand for ,
- stark ,
- steep ,
- stem ,
- step ,
- stern ,
- sticky ,
- stifling ,
- stillborn ,
- sting ,
- stingy ,
- stinky ,
- street fighter ,
- strict ,
- strike down ,
- stringent ,
- stringently ,
- stroke ,
- strong ,
- strong-armer ,
- struck ,
- sturdy ,
- subdued ,
- subscript ,
- substandard ,
- substructure ,
- subtle ,
- subversion ,
- subvert ,
- subverter ,
- suffering ,
- sulfurous ,
- sulky ,
- sullen ,
- sully ,
- sulphurous ,
- summation ,
- summing up ,
- sunk ,
- super ,
- supporter ,
- suppression ,
- surd ,
- surly ,
- swell ,
- sympathize with ,
- syndicalist ,
- tacky ,
- tactless ,
- taint ,
- tainted ,
- tardily ,
- tart ,
- tatterdemalion ,
- tattered ,
- tatty ,
- tawdry ,
- tearing ,
- tearing down ,
- tears ,
- teasing ,
- telling ,
- tempestuous ,
- tenuous ,
- terminus ,
- terms ,
- terribly ,
- terrorisation ,
- terrorization ,
- the skinny ,
- theme ,
- thin ,
- think ,
- think of ,
- thug ,
- thumping ,
- tight ,
- timorous ,
- tinny ,
- tiring ,
- toilsome ,
- tomb ,
- too bad ,
- torturesome ,
- torturing ,
- torturous ,
- total darkness ,
- touch ,
- touch-and-go ,
- toughened ,
- toughie ,
- toxicant ,
- traduce ,
- tragedy ,
- transcendental ,
- transgress ,
- transmissible ,
- transmittable ,
- trashy ,
- trauma ,
- tremendous ,
- trepid ,
- trespass ,
- trifling ,
- trigger-happy ,
- troubling ,
- tubercular ,
- tumble-down ,
- tumultuous ,
- turbulent ,
- turn down ,
- turpitude ,
- tyrannical ,
- tyrannous ,
- ugliness ,
- unaccented ,
- unadvisable ,
- unadvised ,
- unappeasable ,
- unbeloved ,
- uncanny ,
- uncheerful ,
- uncivilised ,
- uncivilized ,
- uncollectible ,
- uncomely ,
- uncongenial ,
- unconscionable ,
- unconventional ,
- unconvincing ,
- uncut ,
- undefinable ,
- undefined ,
- under the weather ,
- understructure ,
- undesirable ,
- undone ,
- uneasy ,
- uneconomical ,
- unendurable ,
- unenviable ,
- unequal ,
- unexpressible ,
- unfairness ,
- unfastening ,
- unfitting ,
- unforgiving ,
- unfortunate person ,
- ungainly ,
- ungodly ,
- unhealthful ,
- unholy ,
- unhopeful ,
- unidentified ,
- unkept ,
- unknown ,
- unlawful ,
- unlikely ,
- unmanageable ,
- unmerciful ,
- unnameable ,
- unnamed ,
- unnerving ,
- unnoticeable ,
- unpitying ,
- unplayful ,
- unpronounceable ,
- unpropitiously ,
- unquiet ,
- unredeemed ,
- unrelenting ,
- unsaved ,
- unsavory ,
- unsavoury ,
- unsmooth ,
- unsound ,
- unsporting ,
- unsportsmanlike ,
- unsufferable ,
- unsung ,
- unsympathetic ,
- untellable ,
- untying ,
- unvoiced ,
- unwell ,
- unwise ,
- unworthy ,
- upset ,
- urgent ,
- usurious ,
- utmost ,
- uttermost ,
- vanish ,
- vast ,
- vehement ,
- veil ,
- vengeful ,
- veto ,
- vexation ,
- vexing ,
- vileness ,
- vilification ,
- violative ,
- violent death ,
- vitiate ,
- vitriolic ,
- voiceless ,
- wakeless ,
- walloping ,
- wane ,
- want ,
- washed-up ,
- washy ,
- waste ,
- wasting away ,
- watery ,
- wayward ,
- weakly ,
- wearing ,
- wearying ,
- weighed down ,
- wild ,
- wild blue yonder ,
- wildcat ,
- wiped out ,
- wipeout ,
- wispy ,
- with child ,
- wobbly ,
- woefully ,
- wolf ,
- wonderful ,
- wondrous ,
- wonky ,
- worrisome ,
- worrying ,
- worsen ,
- worsening ,
- wound ,
- wrecking ,
- wrenching ,
- wrongdoing ,
- wrongfulness ,
- wroth ,
- wrothful ,
- yob ,
- yobbo ,
- yobo ,
- yucky .
- Annihilatory ,
- Blighting ,
- Depredatory ,
- Desolating ,
- Destroying ,
- Doomful ,
- Fratricidal ,
- Incommunicable ,
- Sinisterly ,
- Star-crossed ,
- Subversionary ,
- Vandalic ,
- Wreckful ,
- abject ,
- abuse ,
- accident ,
- achromatic ,
- adversely ,
- adversity ,
- afflictive ,
- agonizing ,
- appalling ,
- austere ,
- awful ,
- awfully ,
- awkwardly ,
- badly ,
- baleful ,
- bitter ,
- black ,
- black market ,
- blackened ,
- bleak ,
- bootleg ,
- bringing ruin ,
- bruise ,
- calamitously ,
- calamity ,
- cheerless ,
- clumsily ,
- consuming ,
- consumptive ,
- contamination ,
- contraband ,
- corruption ,
- crippling ,
- crushing ,
- cumbersome ,
- cumbrous ,
- damage ,
- damagingly ,
- damning ,
- dangerous ,
- dark ,
- death ,
- decline ,
- degradation ,
- demolishing ,
- demolitionary ,
- deplorable ,
- depravity ,
- depressing ,
- deprivation ,
- destruction ,
- deterioration ,
- detriment ,
- devastative ,
- dim ,
- dire ,
- direful ,
- disadvantage ,
- disaster ,
- disastrously ,
- disease ,
- disheartening ,
- dismal ,
- dispiriting ,
- disservice ,
- distressfully ,
- distressing ,
- disturbing ,
- dolorous ,
- dreadful ,
- dreary ,
- egregious ,
- enormous ,
- erroneously ,
- error ,
- evilly ,
- fatal ,
- fateful ,
- flagrant ,
- foreboding ,
- forlorn ,
- funereal ,
- gawkily ,
- gloomy ,
- gravely ,
- grievance ,
- grievously ,
- grim ,
- hapless ,
- hardly ,
- harm ,
- harmfully ,
- harrowing ,
- harsh ,
- harshly ,
- hazardous ,
- heartbreaking ,
- heartrending ,
- hellfire ,
- help ,
- horrendous ,
- horrible ,
- horrifying ,
- huge ,
- ignominious ,
- ill-chosen ,
- ill-fated ,
- ill-omened ,
- ill-starred ,
- inauspiciously ,
- incorrectly ,
- indefinable ,
- ineptly ,
- inexpressible ,
- infelicitous ,
- inglorious ,
- iniquity ,
- injuriously ,
- injury ,
- inopportunely ,
- internecine ,
- intolerable ,
- lachrymose ,
- lamentable ,
- lugubrious ,
- melancholy ,
- messy ,
- misadventure ,
- mischief ,
- mischievous ,
- mischievously ,
- misfortune ,
- mistakenly ,
- monumental ,
- mordant ,
- morose ,
- mournful ,
- nasty ,
- negative ,
- nihilist ,
- nihilistic ,
- noxious ,
- ominous ,
- ominously ,
- onerous ,
- oppressive ,
- opprobrious ,
- outrageous ,
- painful ,
- pathetic ,
- pernicious ,
- perversely ,
- pitch black ,
- pitch-dark ,
- piteous ,
- pitiable ,
- pitiful ,
- poor ,
- poorly ,
- portentous ,
- predetermined ,
- racking ,
- ravaging ,
- regrettable ,
- risky ,
- rough ,
- ruining ,
- ruinously ,
- sad ,
- saddening ,
- sadly ,
- self-destructive ,
- seriously ,
- severe ,
- severely ,
- shameful ,
- shocking ,
- sin ,
- smuggled ,
- smutty ,
- sombre ,
- sorrowful ,
- sternly ,
- strictly ,
- subversive ,
- suicidal ,
- tough ,
- toxic ,
- tragical ,
- tragically ,
- tumbledown ,
- unadvantageous ,
- unbearable ,
- unbelievable ,
- undescribable ,
- undoing ,
- unfavourable ,
- unforgivable ,
- unfortunately ,
- unhappily ,
- unhappy ,
- unkindly ,
- unluckily ,
- unpleasant ,
- unpromising ,
- unsafe ,
- unutterable ,
- upsetting ,
- vandalistic ,
- viciously ,
- wasteful ,
- wasting ,
- whopping ,
- wickedly ,
- wickedness ,
- withering ,
- wretched ,
- wretchedly ,
- wrongly .
- Bummed ,
- Discommodious ,
- Dolent ,
- Dolesome ,
- Dolorific ,
- Mortiferous ,
- anguished ,
- bad break ,
- baneful ,
- behind eight ball ,
- defying description ,
- destructive ,
- devastating ,
- disastrous ,
- down and out ,
- down on luck ,
- evil ,
- god-awful ,
- grievous ,
- hard luck ,
- harmful ,
- heart-rending ,
- in a bad way ,
- in the pits ,
- low-down ,
- lowdown ,
- out of luck ,
- tough luck ,
- tragic ,
- unfavorable ,
- unfortunate ,
- unlucky ,
- unprosperous ,
- woeful .
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How to use "Calamitous" in context?
A calamitous event is one that is bad and unfortunate. It can be something as small as spilling coffee on your clothing, or as large as a natural disaster. Whatever the cause, a calamitous event is anything but pleasant.
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Equivalence
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catastrophic, disastrous.
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Independent
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abysmal, appalling, damaging, detrimental, dismal, dreadful, fateful, harmful, horrendous, ill-fated, terrible, unfortunate.
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Other Related
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baleful, cataclysmic, deadly, destructive, devastating, dire, fatal, pernicious, ruinous, tragic.
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