calamity

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noun

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:
catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
• Derivationally related forms:
cataclysmic (for: cataclysm), cataclysmal (for: cataclysm), tragical (for: tragedy), tragic (for: tragedy), disastrous (for: disaster), calamitous
• 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

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