/ca-la-mi-DAD/
In Spain, a walking disaster — a clumsy, hapless person who ruins everything they touch without ever learning from their mistakes. A calamidad doesn't improve, they just find new things to wreck.
Example
"She's a disaster in the kitchen, she burns everything including water."
"You're such a disaster, always breaking something!"
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/ca-la-mi-DAD/
In Spain, a walking disaster — a clumsy, hapless person who ruins everything they touch without ever learning from their mistakes. A calamidad doesn't improve, they just find new things to wreck.
Example
"She's a disaster in the kitchen, she burns everything including water."
"You're such a disaster, always breaking something!"
Word family
Regional synonyms: