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calamity

noun

1 calamity

An event resulting in great loss and misfortune:
— The whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity.

synonyms: cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy.

Roget 619: evil, ill, harm, hurt.   , mischief, nuisance; machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to.    blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, ... show more

Roget 735: adversity, evil etc. 619; failure etc. 732; bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, ... show more

Dutch: calamiteit, onheil, rampspoed, catastrofe, ecologische ramp, ramp, drama, tragedie, treurspel
Polish: cios, dramat, nieszczęście, tragedia, zguba


Moby thesaurus: accident, adversity, affliction, bane, blow, bugbear, burden, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash, cross, crushing burden, curse, death, desolation ... show more.

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