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calamitous

adj
/kəˈlæmɪtəs/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French calamiteux (“calamitous”) (see French -eux, English -ous), from Latin calamitōsus (“destructive, disastrous, ruinous, calamitous”), a contraction of calamitātōsus, from calamitāt- + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns); calamitāt- is the oblique stem of calamitās (“disaster, misfortune, calamity; damage, harm; loss”), from *calamis (“damaged”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat; to break”)) + -tās (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state). By surface analysis, calamity + -ous.

  1. derived from *kelh₂-✻ — “to beat; to break”
  2. derived from calamitōsus — “destructive, disastrous, ruinous, calamitous”
  3. borrowed from calamiteux — “calamitous”

Definitions

  1. Causing or involving calamity

    Causing or involving calamity; disastrous.

    • The city was struck by a calamitous cyclone.
    • The next year vvas calamitous, bringing ſtrange fluxes upon men, and murren upon Cattel.

  2. Of a person

    Of a person: involved in a calamity; hence, distressed, miserable.

    • Thou haſt ſeen me happy and calamitous, thou haſt beheld my exaltation and my fall.

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Derived

calamitously, calamitousness, uncalamitous, uncalamitously

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at calamitous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01calamitous02calamity03disaster04catastrophe05disastrous

A definitional loop anchored at calamitous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at calamitous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA