Definition for Calamity:

• Calamitous.

Synonyms for Calamity:

• n.

  •
  • irritation,
  • help,
  • drag.
  •accident (noun)
  • wrack ups,
  • fenderbender,
  • fender-benders,
  • stack ups,
  • stackups,
  • crack ups,
  • stackup,
  • wrack-ups,
  • wrackup,
  • fenderbenders,
  • rear enders,
  • stack-ups,
  • wrackups.
  •adversity (noun)
  • poverty,
  • difficulty,
  • grief,
  • dolor,
  • infliction,
  • hard times,
  • destitution,
  • blight,
  • rainy day,
  • peril,
  • agony,
  • burden,
  • trial,
  • poorness,
  • contretemps,
  • trouble,
  • torment,
  • bad luck.
  •affliction (noun)
  • dis ease,
  • dis order,
  • dis-ease,
  • dis-eases,
  • dis eases,
  • dis-orders,
  • dis-order,
  • dis orders.
  •bane (noun)
  • contagion,
  • poison,
  • infection,
  • cancer,
  • scourge.
  •blow (noun)
  • bolt from the blue,
  • up set,
  • bombshell,
  • bombshells.
  •cataclysm (noun)
  • torrents,
  • holy mess,
  • double trouble,
  • flood,
  • unholy mess.
  •catastrophe (noun)
  • de solation,
  • de-solation,
  • up shot,
  • up shots,
  • de solations,
  • up-shots,
  • up-shot,
  • de-solations.
  •disappointment (noun)
  • lemon,
  • inefficacy,
  • faux pas,
  • bringdown,
  • washout,
  • old one-two,
  • errors.
  •disaster (noun)
  • study at disaster.
  •disaster; tragedy (noun)
  • wretchedness,
  • waterloo,
  • downfall,
  • wreck,
  • blue ruin,
  • reverse,
  • collapse,
  • ruin,
  • visitation,
  • the worst,
  • curtains,
  • cross.
  •distress (noun)
  • dis-tress,
  • dis tresses,
  • dis tress,
  • ticklish spots,
  • dis-tresses,
  • tough breaks,
  • rotten lucks.
  •doom (noun)
  • de crees,
  • handwriting wall,
  • pre-destinations,
  • predeterminations,
  • fore ordination,
  • de-crees,
  • pre determination,
  • lap gods,
  • lap of god,
  • lap the god,
  • lap god,
  • way ball bounce,
  • lap of gods,
  • foreordinations,
  • de-cree,
  • pre-destination,
  • fixed futures,
  • way ball bounces,
  • pre determinations,
  • pre-determination,
  • way cookie crumble,
  • pre-determinations,
  • way the ball bounce,
  • fore ordinations,
  • lap the gods,
  • lap of the god,
  • fore-ordinations,
  • pre destinations,
  • de cree,
  • pre destination,
  • way the cookie crumble.
  •event (noun)
  • calamity.
  •evil (noun)
  • Knaveries,
  • sinfulness,
  • infamy,
  • vileness,
  • diabolisms,
  • knavery,
  • criminality,
  • looseness,
  • obscenity,
  • criminalities,
  • Peccancy,
  • diabolism.
  •haplessness (noun)
  • hardshis.
  •hardship (noun)
  • dis comforts,
  • dis comfort,
  • uphill battles,
  • dis-comfort,
  • herculean tasks,
  • dis-comforts.
  •havoc (noun)
  • havoc,
  • shambles.
  •plague (noun)
  • thorn side.
  •tragedy (noun)
  • bad fortunes.
  •undoing (noun)
  • sub version,
  • sub-version,
  • de-stroyer,
  • dis-graces,
  • re versal,
  • de-stroyers,
  • un doings,
  • dis graces,
  • mis steps,
  • over-throws,
  • de stroyer,
  • over-turn,
  • re-versal,
  • de stroyers,
  • un-doings,
  • sub-versions,
  • dis grace,
  • dis-grace,
  • over turns,
  • un doing,
  • over throw,
  • over throws,
  • bad omen,
  • sub versions,
  • un-doing,
  • bad omens,
  • over-throw.
  •unfortunateness (noun)
  • un fortunatenesses,
  • un-fortunatenesses,
  • un fortunateness,
  • un-fortunateness.
  •unluckiness (noun)
  • un luckinesses,
  • un-luckinesses,
  • un luckiness,
  • un-luckiness.
  •untowardness (noun)
  • un-towardnesses,
  • un-towardness,
  • un towardnesses,
  • un towardness.
  •woe (noun)
  • be moaning,
  • bemoanings,
  • grievings,
  • un happinesses,
  • be-moaning,
  • un-happinesses,
  • un-happiness,
  • deplorings.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • whoops,
  • own goal,
  • menace,
  • OOPS,
  • Natural Disaster,
  • act of god,
  • geohazard,
  • pest,
  • state of emergency,
  • joke,
  • violence.
  •
  • irritant,
  • pinprick,
  • peeve,
  • annoyance,
  • vexation.
  •
  • bother.

Paraphrases for Calamity:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    catastrophe, disaster, disasters.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    misfortune, trouble.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    disgrace, accident, devastation, holocaust, peril, unhappiness, nuisance, havoc.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    tragedy, misery, scourge, curse, distress, mishap, conflagration, debacle, woe.

Antonyms for Calamity:

• n.

  • disaster; tragedy
    miracle, favor, good fortune, fortune, happiness, good luck, creation, blessing, peace, health, advantage, boon, success, joy, comfort, wonder, profit, benefit.
  • Other antonyms:
    preparation, godsend, law, intention, necessity, manna, foreordination, certainty, provision, ordinance, appointment, decree, windfall, plan, fate, Ordainment, purpose, calculation.

Calamity Sentence Examples:

• Perhaps, after all, we have been running out to meet calamity.

• Julia wasted no words now; she sat for a brief minute, stunned by the magnitude of the calamity which had deprived them of the largest part of their income for the next three months; then she began to look round in her mind to see what might be done.

Hypernym for Calamity:

• n.

  • event
    unavoidable casualty, famine, apocalypse, kiss of death, tsunami, act of god, tidal wave, Vis Major, visitation, force majeure, inevitable accident, plague, meltdown.

Hyponym for Calamity:

• n.

  • event
    bad luck, misfortune.