calamitously
- adverb
- /kəˈlæmɪtəsli/
:
calamitosamente
- The factory's shutdown calamitously affected the employment rates in the surrounding area.
Examples
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The ship sank calamitously after hitting the iceberg, causing a major disaster.
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That was the calamitously awful, guilt-tripping meme conveyed in James Cameron's otherwise worthy film, Avatar.
Blog text (25) -
Hawthorne would appear to be suggesting that the fear of otherness, however calamitously difficult one's apprehension of this otherness may be, does not justify violence.
Academic text (2012) -
Of course, the scenario in which a newly sober celebrity drug user announces he's done with drugs, only to calamitously fall off the wagon at the drop of a dime bag, is fast becoming a cliché.
Fiction book (2002) -
The earthquake calamitously destroyed many homes and left families homeless.
Synonyms
84
4.1
In a way that causes great sadness or very bad results
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6.5
In a way that is very bad or not good enough
7
7.2
In a way that causes very great harm or failure
6
5.5
In a very bad or extreme way
6
5.6
In a way that causes great harm or failure
3
6.7
In a way that causes great harm or damage
1
7.8
In a way that causes a lot of harm or loss
1
9.5
In a way that causes a very large violent change or disaster
In a very great and dramatic way
In a way that causes great harm
Antonyms
How Disastrously
Surface Forms
Morphology
calamitously = calamitous (transparent) = calamity + ous + ly
Formed by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'calamitous', so the adverb's meaning is directly derived from the adjective.
Etymology
Calamitously comes from the word calamity, which itself comes from an old Latin word calamitas meaning 'damage' or 'loss'. So, to say something happened calamitously is to say it happened in a way that caused great harm or disaster.