calamitous

C2

a. 灾难性的, 不幸的

发音

US /kəˈlæmɪtəs/
其它
UK /kəˈlæmɪtəs/

词形变化

more calamitous 比较级 most calamitous 最高级

释义与例句

adj. C2
  1. 1.

    Causing or involving calamity; disastrous.

    惨重

    晦气

    The city was struck by a calamitous cyclone.

  2. 2.

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

    废旧

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 4

black fatal disastrous fateful

近义相关 1

unfortunate

词源

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.

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