The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calamitous \Ca*lam"i*tous\, a. [L. Calamitosus; cf. F. calamiteux.]
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Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.]
Ten thousands of calamitous persons.
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Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy. ``This sad and calamitous condition.''
--South. ``A calamitous prison''
--Milton.Syn: Miserable; deplorable; distressful; afflictive; wretched; grievous; baleful; disastrous; adverse; unhappy; severe; sad; unfortunate. -- Ca*lam"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Ca*lam"i*tous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
adv. In a calamitous manner.
Usage examples of "calamitously".
Without our conversations wandering the midnight streets of Charleston, and the woods at Bentonville, where the armies of North and South clashed so calamitously, this book would be much impoverished.
Now, calamitously, he understood why his father had been so cautious about the circle.
And Nancy—it would wipe her out, socially, if she were exhibited before the world in that calamitously exposive prison outfit.
The goal was one of the most calamitously stupid ever given away by a team of professionals: an inept back-pass (by Ian Ure, naturally), followed by a missed tackle, followed by a goalkeeper (Bob Wilson) slipping over in the mud and allowing the ball to trickle over the line just inside the right-hand post.