| slovo | definícia |
calamitous
(encz) | calamitous,neblahý Jiří Šmoldas |
calamitous
(encz) | calamitous,nešťastný Jiří Šmoldas |
Calamitous
(gcide) | Calamitous \Ca*lam"i*tous\, a. [L. Calamitosus; cf. F.
calamiteux.]
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1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.]
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Ten thousands of calamitous persons. --South.
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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.
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calamitous
(wn) | calamitous
adj 1: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire
consequences; bringing ruin; "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" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous,
fatal, fateful] |
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calamitously
(encz) | calamitously,nešťastně Jiří Šmoldas |
Calamitous
(gcide) | Calamitous \Ca*lam"i*tous\, a. [L. Calamitosus; cf. F.
calamiteux.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.]
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Ten thousands of calamitous persons. --South.
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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.
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Calamitously
(gcide) | Calamitous \Ca*lam"i*tous\, a. [L. Calamitosus; cf. F.
calamiteux.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.]
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Ten thousands of calamitous persons. --South.
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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.
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Calamitousness
(gcide) | Calamitous \Ca*lam"i*tous\, a. [L. Calamitosus; cf. F.
calamiteux.]
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1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.]
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Ten thousands of calamitous persons. --South.
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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.
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