Miserable; involved in calamity or deep distress; wretched.
Of the nature of or marked by calamity or great misfortune; bringing or resulting from calamity; making wretched; distressing or distressful: as, a calamitous event; “that calamitous prison,” Milton, S.A.,1. 1480; “this sad and calamitous condition,” South.
Synonyms Afflictive, disastrous, distressing, grievous, deplorable, baleful, ruinous.