The Clue
Calamitous (5 letter answer)
The Answer
FATAL
Tags
Notes
The answer FATAL is common and appears about once every 275 puzzles.
Related Clues
"___ Attraction"
Deadly
Decisive
Disastrous
Funest
Lethal
Mortal
Ruinous
Beyond recovery
Bringing ruin
Bringing ruin (to)
Causing ruin
"___ Attraction," 1987 movie
Like some attractions
Like some blows
Definition
FATAL as an adjective:
1. bringing death
2. (fateful, fatal) = having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived"
3. (black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful) = (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"
4. (fatal, fateful) = controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events"