CALAMITOUS Synonyms

• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

• severely destructive

• extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin

• (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury

• designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

• making light of

• wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction

• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• causing or marked by grief or anguish

• of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

• shockingly brutal or cruel

• causing or capable of causing harm

• extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin

• causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin

• of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy

• very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction

• bringing death

• having momentous consequences; of decisive importance

• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

• controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined

• being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light

• of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin

• the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

• British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

• popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)

• total absence of light

• (board games) the darker pieces

• a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today

• black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

• marked by anger or resentment or hostility

• offering little or no hope

• stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

• (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood

• extremely dark

• harshly ironic or sinister

• (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading

• distributed or sold illicitly

• (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

• (of coffee) without cream or sugar

• soiled with dirt or soot

• make or become black

• having momentous consequences; of decisive importance

• ominously prophetic

• (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

• controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined