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| type | s |
| lex_filenum | 00 |
| def | (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences |
| def | bringing ruin |
| examples | the stock market crashed on Black Friday a calamitous defeat the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory Charles Darwin it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it Douglas MacArthur a fateful error |
| Outgoing links | |
| Similar to | unfortunate |
| Derivationally related form | disastrous → disaster |
| Derivationally related form | calamitous → calamity |
| Incoming links | |
| Similar to | unfortunate |
| Derived from adjective | disastrously → disastrous |
| Derivationally related form | disaster → disastrous |
| Derivationally related form | calamity → calamitous |
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