disaster
1. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune (Freq. 7)
- the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity
- the earthquake was a disaster
• Syn:
calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, cataclysm
• Derivationally related forms:
cataclysmic (for: cataclysm), cataclysmal (for: cataclysm), tragical (for: tragedy), tragic (for: tragedy), disastrous, calamitous (for: calamity)
• Hypernyms:
misfortune, bad luck
• Hyponyms:
act of God, force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty,
apocalypse, famine, kiss of death, meltdown, plague, visitation,
tidal wave, tsunami
2. a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune (Freq. 7)
- lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system
- his policies were a disaster
• Syn:
catastrophe
• Hypernyms:
adversity, hardship, hard knocks
3. an act that has disastrous consequences (Freq. 1)
• Hypernyms:
destruction, devastation
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