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Calamitous is the describing word: it marks a thing, a time, or a result as terrible, unexpected, and full of damage or suffering — the adjective that belongs with calamity. A calamitous fire, a calamitous error, a calamitous year. It is fairly formal and heavy; in ordinary talk people more often say disastrous or terrible. You use it before a noun, or after a verb like be or prove (“The decision proved calamitous”). It does not name the event itself; it tells you what kind of event it was. Because it is so strong, it can sound overblown if the harm was small.
災難性的、慘重的（形容詞；名詞是 calamity）
組成Calamity + -ous. Borrowed from French calamiteux, from Latin calamitōsus “destructive, disastrous”, from calamitās “disaster, loss, harm” plus a suffix meaning “full of”.
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- calamitythe noun this adjective is built from
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
calamitousadj/kəˈlæmɪtəs/
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Causing or involving calamity; disastrous.
- The city was struck by a calamitous cyclone.
- [T]he fallacie of Æquivocation and Amphibologie, […] conclude from the ambiguity of ſome vvord, or the ambiguous ſintaxis of many put together. From this fallacy aroſe the calamitous error of the Jevves, miſapprehending the Propheſies of their Meſſias, and expounding them alvvayes unto literall and temporal expectation.
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obsoleteOf a person: involved in a calamity; hence, distressed, miserable.
- Nor ought a Judge, in taking cognizance of a Cauſe, to ſhevv any Anger or Reſentment againſt ſuch Perſons as he conceives to be his Enemies, nor to be prevailed on by the Tears and Prayers of calamitous Perſons, nor ought he to affect to be thought Good-natured or Moroſe, Merciful or Severe, but let him act vvith Calmneſs as the Lavv directs; […]
- Thou haſt ſeen me happy and calamitous, thou haſt beheld my exaltation and my fall.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。