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Calamitous vs Deplorable - What's the difference?

calamitous | deplorable | Synonyms |

As adjectives the difference between calamitous and deplorable

is that calamitous is concerning or involving calamity, disastrous while deplorable is deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad.

calamitous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Concerning or involving calamity, disastrous.
  • :The city was struck by a calamitous cyclone.

    • Synonyms

    * destructive * fatal

    deplorable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad.
  • (senseid)To be felt sorrow for; worthy of compassion.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable , fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:it is a black spot which all the soaps ever advertised could never wash off.

    • Synonyms

    * pathetic