calamitous


calamitous (http://definr.com/calamitous)

     adj : (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, disastrous, fatal, fateful]