calamity
noun, plural ca·lam·i·ties.
Origin of calamity
Synonyms for calamity
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Related Words for calamity
hardship, collapse, scourge, misfortune, mishap, cataclysm, woe, adversity, catastrophe, curtains, downfall, reverse, misadventure, visitation, wreck, cross, mischance, trial, distress, tribulationExamples from the Web for calamity
Contemporary Examples of calamity
Calamity,” Roth writes elsewhere, “when it comes, comes in a rush.
American Dreams: How Bush Shaped Our Reading of Roth’s ‘The Plot Against America’Nathaniel Rich
November 23, 2014
Lebanon, always on the edge of (and sometimes past the edge of) calamity, but too complicated for most people to figure out.
Batman and Robin was such a calamity that it was easy to reboot.
But their arrival was experienced by Indians, who found their worlds abruptly overturned, as a calamity.
Calamity here could also lead to the political demise of a far less secure dictator than Stalin.
Historical Examples of calamity
Oh, Colonel, help me to guard against so dreadful a calamity.
Decidedly, Dick had been a godsend, and his absence would be a calamity.
VivietteWilliam J. Locke
Three things have happened, either one of which would alone have been a calamity.
The Bacillus of BeautyHarriet Stark
Doubtless posterity has acquired a better city by the calamity of that generation.
Old NewsNathaniel Hawthorne
What horrible thing, what calamity that frightened my soul to think of, had fallen on me?
Green MansionsW. H. Hudson