Calamitous (5 letters)

{ Answer }

FATAL

{ Related Clues }

"___ Attraction"
Deadly
Decisive
Disastrous
Funest
Mortal
Ruinous
Bringing ruin (to)
bringing ruin
Causing ruin
Kind of attraction
"___ Attraction," 1987 movie
Like some errors

{ Tags }

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{ Notes }

The answer FATAL is common and appears about once every 275 puzzles.

{ 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"