catastrophe

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noun

1. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune (Freq. 3)
- the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity
- the earthquake was a disaster
• Syn:
calamity, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
• Derivationally related forms:
cataclysmic (for: cataclysm), cataclysmal (for: cataclysm), tragical (for: tragedy), tragic (for: tragedy), disastrous (for: disaster), 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. 1)
- lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system
- his policies were a disaster
• Syn:
disaster
• Hypernyms:
adversity, hardship, hard knocks
3. a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
• Syn:
cataclysm
• Hypernyms:
geological phenomenon
• Hyponyms:
nuclear winter

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  cataclysm, disaster, calamity, tragedy