calamidad

f.

1 calamity.

pasar calamidades to suffer great hardship

ser una calamidad (figurative) to be a dead loss

2 unfortunate event, calamity, fateful event, mishap.

3 misfortune, fatality, calamity, fatefulness.

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calamidad

► nombre femenino

1 (desgracia) calamity, disaster

2 figurado (persona) dead loss, good-for-nothing

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FRASEOLOGÍA

ser una calamidad / estar hecho,-a una calamidad familiar to look a sight

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SF (=desastre) calamity, disaster

(=persona)

es una calamidad — he's a dead loss *

estar hecho una calamidad — to be in a very bad way

¡vaya calamidad! — what terrible luck!

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femenino

a) (desastre, desgracia) disaster, calamity

las calamidades que ha pasado! — the terrible things he's gone through!

b) (persona inútil) disaster (colloq)

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= calamity, ill fate, duffer, dud.

Ex. His doctrine that even venial wrongdoing is worse than any natural calamity implies that we ought to refrain from such wrongdoing even if calamity results.

Ex. The sad fact is that the majority of web pages suffer this same ill fate.

Ex. Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.

Ex. It may be tempting the weather gods just to point this out, but this has been a dud of a hurricane season so far.

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femenino

a) (desastre, desgracia) disaster, calamity

las calamidades que ha pasado! — the terrible things he's gone through!

b) (persona inútil) disaster (colloq)

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= calamity, ill fate, duffer, dud.

Ex: His doctrine that even venial wrongdoing is worse than any natural calamity implies that we ought to refrain from such wrongdoing even if calamity results.

Ex: The sad fact is that the majority of web pages suffer this same ill fate.

Ex: Plus, no matter what she did to stop people from picking on her she always ended up being called a duffer.

Ex: It may be tempting the weather gods just to point this out, but this has been a dud of a hurricane season so far.

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calamidad

feminine

1 (desastre, desgracia) disaster, calamity

¡pobre chico, las calamidades que ha tenido que pasar! the poor boy, the terrible things he's had to go through!

2 (persona inútil) disaster (colloq)

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calamidad sustantivo femenino

a) (desastre, desgracia) disaster, calamity;

◊ ¡las calamidades que ha pasado! the terrible things he's gone through!

b) (persona inútil) disaster (colloq)

calamidad sustantivo femenino
1 (desgracia, desastre) calamity: en su infancia pasó muchas calamidades, she had a traumatic childhood
2 familiar hum (persona torpe) disaster: Juan es una calamidad, Juan is a complete disaster
'calamidad' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
azote
- nulidad
- plaga
English:
calamity
- dud

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calamidad nf

1. [catástrofe] disaster, calamity;

pasar calamidades to suffer great hardship;

¡qué calamidad! how awful!

2. [persona]

ser una calamidad to be a dead loss

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calamidad

f calamity

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calamidad nf

desastre: calamity, disaster

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calamidad n (desastre) disaster