Synonyms for calamitous
- adjective
Most common
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Disastrous — causing or involving calamity; disastrous
disastrous, catastrophic, fatal, ruinous, unfortunate, cataclysmic, dreadful, devastating, tragic, dire, fateful, grievous, destructive, deadly, woeful, unlucky, deplorable, pernicious, mournful, evil, distressing, hard
Other
distressful, tragical dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Causing or involving calamity; disastrous.
The city was struck by a calamitous cyclone.
Related words
- Word family
- calamity
Example sentences
- fatal Make the best of one's lot with fatal resignation.
- disastrous This can have disastrous results for your career.
- catastrophic A nuclear war would have catastrophic consequences.
- ruinous Absolute tolerance is ruinous to a tolerant society.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| calamitous | steady | |
| fatal | steady | |
| disastrous | falling | |
| catastrophic | rising | |
| ruinous | falling | |
| distressful | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- hard1, evil2, dire1
- 5 letters
- fatal2
- 6 letters
- deadly2, tragic2, woeful2
- 7 letters
- unlucky3, fateful2, ruinous3
- 8 letters
- dreadful2, grievous2, mournful2, tragical
- 10 letters
- disastrous3, deplorable4, pernicious3
- 11 letters
- unfortunate4, devastating4, destructive3, distressing3, cataclysmic4, distressful
- 12 letters
- catastrophic4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (evil2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- calamiteux
- Català
- calamitós