• adj.
    ⦿(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
    lexical concept
  • a calamitous defeat
  • a fateful error
  • it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it
  • such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory
  • the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign
  • the stock market crashed on Black Friday

Semantic relations

or learn more about the individual relations.

Diagram
Relations diagram for the current synset

! Data may be omitted; view table for full details.

Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:black
  2. enl:calamitous
  3. enl:disastrous
  4. enl:fatal
  5. enl:fateful
wn:interlingual indexili:i5747

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • calamitousdisastrous
  • blackcalamitousdisastrousfatalfateful