Ten thousands of calamitous persons. --South.
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.