calamitous
[kә'læmitәs]
a. 性, 幸

1. An indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; an omen.
   预告，…征兆预着重情性情即将预兆；预告
2. A play, film, television program, or other narrative work that portrays or depicts calamitous events and has an unhappy but meaningful ending.
   悲剧品刻描写性件剧、影、视目其叙品，幸但意味深局
3. A calamitous earthquake broke out here.
   里性震。

calamitous
[ adj ]
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
<adj.all>
the stock market crashed on Black Fridaya calamitous defeat
the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign
such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory
it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it
a fateful error




Calamitous \Ca*lam"i*tous\, a. [L. Calamitosus; cf. F.
calamiteux.]
1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.]

Ten thousands of calamitous persons. --South.

2. 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.