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CALAMITOUS
Definition of CALAMITOUS
adjective
Causing or involving calamity; disastrous.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from French calamiteux (“calamitous”) (see French -eux, English -ous), from Latin calamitōsus (“destructive, disastrous, ruinous, calamitous”), a contraction of calamitātōsus, from calamitāt- + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of; prone to’ forming adjectives from nouns); calamitāt- is the oblique stem of calamitās (“disaster, misfortune, calamity; damage, harm; loss”), from *calamis (“damaged”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat; to break”)) + -tās (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting a condition or state). By surface analysis, calamity + -ous.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,769)
How it is built
Same root, CALAMITOUS · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CALAMITOUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 61 boards so far. 338 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 15, 4 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 165, 1 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 15, 4 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CALAMITOUS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read AACILMOSTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start CALAMI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 15
Could you have found CALAMITOUS?
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