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Pronunciation:
[ dˌɪsˈastə], [ dˌɪsˈastə], [ d_ˌɪ_s_ˈa_s_t_ə]
Related words: disaster team, disaster relief efforts, relief team, disaster management, emergency management, emergency assistance
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Similar words for disaster:
- abortion (noun)
- accident (noun)
- accident, trouble (noun)
- act (noun)
- adversity (noun)
- bad experience (noun)
- bad scene (noun)
- bad trip (noun)
- bane (noun)
- bankruptcy (noun)
- blow (noun)
- catastrophe (noun)
- convulsion (noun)
- crisis (noun)
- critical situation (noun)
- curse (noun)
- death, loss; ability to cause such (noun)
- debacle (noun)
- disappointment (noun)
- distress (noun)
- disturbance (noun)
- doom (noun)
- extremity (noun)
- fall (noun)
- fatality (noun)
- fate or decision, usually unpleasant (noun)
- fiasco (noun)
- flop (noun)
- hardship (noun)
- hurt (noun)
- injury; damage (noun)
- loss (noun)
- major change (noun)
- misadventure (noun)
- misfortunate event (noun)
- mishap (noun)
- pity (noun)
- rout (noun)
- saddening situation; letdown (noun)
- smash (noun)
- unfortunate occurrence (noun)
- unpleasant experience (noun)
- upheaval (noun)
- woe (noun)
- other synonyms
- injury
Synonyms for Disaster:
n.
• abortion (noun) • accident (noun)- crack-ups,
- fenderbender,
- stackup,
- fenderbenders,
- mis fortunes,
- crack ups,
- mis fortune,
- crack-up,
- stack-up,
- stack-ups,
- wrack-up,
- crackups,
- casualty,
- stack up,
- wrackup,
- wrack-ups,
- crackup,
- mis-fortune,
- wrack ups,
- fender-bender,
- stackups,
- mis-fortunes,
- stack ups,
- hazard,
- rear enders,
- wrack up,
- rear ender,
- fender bender,
- fender-benders,
- wrackups,
- misfortunes.
- defeat,
- adversity,
- the worst,
- exigency,
- flop,
- blight,
- holocaust,
- tragedy,
- harm,
- cataclysm,
- depression,
- undoing,
- rough,
- washout,
- crash,
- affliction,
- debacle,
- flood,
- catastrophe,
- mishap,
- fiasco,
- reverse,
- failure,
- grief,
- hot water,
- mischance,
- stroke,
- rock,
- slip,
- bust,
- ill luck,
- calamity,
- bane,
- bad luck,
- bad news,
- upset,
- ruination,
- misadventure,
- collapse,
- misfortune,
- fell stroke,
- emergency,
- bale,
- setback,
- woe,
- ruin,
- fall,
- hard luck,
- blow.
- ordeal,
- peril,
- curse,
- destitution,
- hardship,
- misery,
- infliction,
- hard times,
- trial,
- dolor,
- poorness,
- torment,
- distress,
- burden,
- poverty,
- tribulation,
- trouble,
- contretemps,
- agony,
- rainy day,
- difficulty.
- unpleasant experience,
- depressing experience,
- unpleasant situation,
- bum trips,
- unpleasant situations,
- unhappy situation,
- depressing experiences,
- rotten hand,
- rotten hands,
- unpleasant experiences,
- unhappy situations,
- bum trip,
- bad-scene.
- freak-out,
- freak-outs,
- unpleasant drug experience,
- bad-trip,
- freakouts,
- freak outs,
- unpleasant drug experiences,
- freakout.
- de fault,
- de-fault,
- over draft,
- in solvency,
- destitutenesses,
- non payment,
- overdraft,
- Non-payment,
- defalcation,
- de faults,
- in-solvencies,
- non-payments,
- over drafts,
- de-faults,
- in-solvency,
- non payments,
- pauperisms,
- Destituteness,
- overdrafts,
- over-draft,
- over-drafts,
- pauperism,
- in solvencies,
- defalcations.
- fire,
- cave in,
- crash landing,
- sudden misfortune,
- smashup,
- blast,
- evil day,
- scourge,
- sinking,
- comedown,
- great mishap,
- adverse happening,
- terrible accident,
- downfall,
- bankruptcy,
- visitation,
- extremity,
- gathering clouds,
- crushing reverse,
- overthrow,
- blaze,
- wreck.
- out-cries,
- out-cry,
- up turns,
- Rocking,
- tremblings,
- up-turns,
- out cries,
- up turn,
- up-turn,
- quakings,
- totterings,
- rockings,
- upturn,
- out cry.
- big trouble,
- predicaments,
- hour of decision,
- predicament,
- hot potato,
- urgency,
- cross-roads,
- height,
- Cross-road,
- Exigencies,
- quandary.
- dis-solutions,
- de feat,
- blue ruin,
- de feasances,
- blue ruins,
- de feasance,
- over-throw,
- over throw,
- dis solution,
- de-feats,
- licking,
- dis solutions,
- de-feat,
- de-feasance,
- re versal,
- over-throws,
- de-feasances,
- shellackings,
- dis-solution,
- de feats,
- trouncings,
- over throws,
- re-versal.
- tough breaks,
- vicissitude,
- dis tresses,
- dis tress,
- rotten lucks,
- dis-tresses,
- tough break,
- unholy mess,
- unholy messes,
- ticklish spot,
- holy messes,
- dis-tress,
- holy mess,
- ticklish spots,
- hard time,
- rotten luck.
- fixed futures,
- pre-determination,
- way ball bounce,
- lap the gods,
- pre determination,
- lap the god,
- de-crees,
- lap of the gods,
- de crees,
- de cree,
- de-cree,
- handwriting wall,
- predetermination,
- predestination,
- pre-destinations,
- lap of god,
- way ball bounces,
- lap god,
- predeterminations,
- foreordination,
- pre destinations,
- fore-ordinations,
- way cookie crumble,
- pre determinations,
- way cookie crumbles,
- lap gods,
- fore ordination,
- fore ordinations,
- foreordinations,
- pre-destination,
- lap of gods,
- Fore-ordination,
- pre destination,
- handwriting on wall,
- way the cookie crumbles,
- fixed future,
- sentences,
- lap of the god,
- pre-determinations,
- way the cookie crumble,
- way the ball bounces,
- way the ball bounce.
- ex cess,
- Vertices,
- ex-cess,
- out side,
- re-motes,
- remotes,
- out sides,
- pinnacle,
- out-sides,
- re-mote,
- re motes,
- Extremities,
- ex-cesses.
- falls,
- de-gradations,
- de gradation,
- de gradations,
- sur-render,
- de-gradation,
- sur-renders,
- sur renders.
- lethalness,
- destructiveness,
- noxiousness,
- noxiousnesses,
- lethality,
- inevitabilities,
- necrosises,
- dyings,
- necrosis,
- lethalnesses,
- destructivenesses,
- inevitability.
- doom.
- dumb thing to do,
- dumb trick,
- mis-carriages,
- botched situations,
- dumb thing do,
- mis carriages,
- dumb tricks,
- botched situation,
- mis-carriage,
- mis carriage.
- dis-comforts,
- herculean tasks,
- uphill battles,
- dis comforts,
- dis-comfort,
- in-jury,
- in juries,
- dis comfort,
- uphill battle,
- in jury.
- black blue,
- boo-boos,
- illtreatment,
- dis advantage,
- dis service,
- black and blues,
- dis advantages,
- ill-treatment,
- ill treatment,
- ill-treatments,
- mis-chief,
- black and blue,
- boo-boo,
- booboos,
- out rages,
- mis-chiefs,
- booboo,
- dis services,
- mis chiefs,
- sores,
- illtreatments,
- dis-advantage,
- dis-services,
- ill treatments,
- dis-service,
- mis chief,
- dis-advantages,
- out-rages,
- black blues,
- out-rage,
- Downs.
- hurt.
- dis-order,
- ex plosion,
- out burst,
- ex plosions,
- new ball game,
- dis orders,
- ex-plosion,
- shakeout,
- out break,
- out breaks,
- out-burst,
- dis order,
- new deal,
- stirrings,
- re volutions,
- out-bursts,
- about face,
- new ball games,
- out-breaks,
- temblor,
- out bursts,
- new ball-game,
- new deals,
- new ballgame,
- new ballgames,
- out-break,
- new ball-games,
- re-volutions,
- dis-orders,
- re-volution,
- shakeouts.
Other synonyms:
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- collision,
- violence,
- loss,
- quitter,
- lost cause,
- Natural Disaster,
- fuck up,
- state of emergency,
- whoops,
- act of god,
- dead duck,
- second best,
- own goal,
- underachiever,
- geohazard,
- OOPS,
- lame duck,
- also-ran.
-
•
- event,
- pity,
- apocalypse.
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•
- abortion.
How to use "Disaster" in context?
Disasters can happen when people are not prepared for them. Disasters can happen when people are not properly trained or when they do not have the right tools or information when a disaster happens.
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
calamity, catastrophe, catastrophes.
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Noun, singular or mass
calamity, catastrophe.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Proper noun, singular
less.
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Noun, singular or mass
destruction, failure, less, mitigation.
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Proper noun, singular
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Other Related
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Proper noun, singular
hazards.
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Noun, singular or mass
accident, adversity, cataclysm, collapse, conflagration, crash, damage, debacle, defeat, devastation, disgrace, distress, drama, earthquake, fiasco, flooding, flop, havoc, hazard, holocaust, incident, mess, misery, misfortune, mishap, peril, preparedness, scourge, setback, shambles, shipwreck, sinking, suffering, tsunami, unhappiness, wreck, meltdown, Dramas, tsunamis, disaster-recovery.
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Interjection
catastrophe.
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Proper noun, singular
Homophones for Disaster:
- dishwater, do-gooder, decoder, destroy, digester, disaster area, digitaria, dictator, duster, dexter, doctor, dogwood tree, detector, daystar, doctorow, Dutch Door, daisy cutter, decatur, daughter, dog star, destroyer.
Hyponym for Disaster:
n.
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act
destruction, devastation.
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state
hardship, hard knocks, adversity.
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act
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