What is another word for calamity?
Synonyms for calamity
kəˈlæm ɪ ticalami·ty
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
calamity
An accident is that which happens without any one's direct intention; a chance that which happens without any known cause. If the direct cause of a railroad accident is known, we can not call it a chance. To the theist there is, in strictness, no chance, all things being by divine causation and control; but chance is spoken of where no special cause is manifest: "By chance there came down a certain priest that way," Luke x, 31. We can speak of a game of chance, but not of a game of accident. An incident is viewed as occurring in the regular course of things, but subordinate to the main purpose, or aside from the main design. Fortune is the result of inscrutable controlling forces. Fortune and chance are nearly equivalent, but chance can be used of human effort and endeavor as fortune can not be; we say "he has a chance of success," or "there is one chance in a thousand," where we could not substitute fortune; as personified, Fortune is regarded as having a fitful purpose, Chance as purposeless; we speak of fickle Fortune, blind Chance; "Fortune favors the brave." The slaughter of men is an incident of battle; unexpected defeat, the fortune of war. Since the unintended is often the undesirable, accident tends to signify some calamity or disaster, unless the contrary is expressed, as when we say a fortunate or happy accident. An adventure is that which may turn out ill, a misadventure that which does turn out ill. A slight disturbing accident is a mishap. Compare EVENT; HAZARD.
Synonyms:
accident, adventure, casualty, chance, contingency, disaster, fortuity, hap, happening, hazard, incident, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, possibilityAntonyms:
appointment, calculation, certainty, decree, fate, foreordination, intention, law, necessity, ordainment, ordinance, plan, preparation, provision, purposePreposition:
The accident of birth; an accident to the machinery.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
calamity
Synonyms:
disaster, misfortune, mishap, catastrophe, misadventure, trouble, visitation, affliction, reverse, blight
Princeton's WordNet
calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysmnoun
an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
"the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"
Synonyms:
disaster, catastrophe, tragedy, cataclysm
Dictionary of English Synonymes
calamitynoun
Synonyms:
disaster, misfortune, catastrophe, mishap, mischance, reverse, visitation, trial, blow, stroke, trouble, affliction, adversity, distress, hardship, casualty, ill luck, ill fortune
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
calamitynoun
Synonyms:
disaster, catastrophe, misfortune, casualty, reverse, adversity, mischance
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List of paraphrases for "calamity":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1885 | chance | |
#2310 | adventure | |
#3124 | trouble | |
#3815 | reverse | |
#3865 | accident | |
#4134 | disaster | |
#4175 | possibility | |
#4926 | incident | |
#5437 | happening | |
#7304 | hazard | |
#9367 | tragedy | |
#11618 | curse | |
#13105 | casualty | |
#14434 | contingency | |
#15960 | visitation | |
#20424 | catastrophe | |
#25403 | hap | |
#27794 | blight | |
#31190 | misfortune | |
#34052 | calamity | |
#37535 | affliction | |
#43262 | mishap | |
#81876 | misadventure | |
#84068 | cataclysm |
How to use calamity in a sentence?
People just don’t seem to understand the scale of the calamity that very well could happen in one generation here, we’re talking about a very short amount of time.
I look forward to discussing what the United States can do to avoid a strategic calamity with my Senate colleagues and with senior administration officials when the Senate returns to Washington this week.
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
Translations for calamity
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- بلأArabic
- нещастие, бедствиеBulgarian
- kalamitaCzech
- Unheil, Kalamität, UnglückGerman
- plago, katastrofoEsperanto
- calamidadSpanish
- suurtuho, suuronnettomuusFinnish
- calamitéFrench
- आपदाHindi
- vészHungarian
- kalamitatoIdo
- calamitàItalian
- אָסוֹןHebrew
- 災難, 災厄, 災いJapanese
- უბედურებაGeorgian
- 재난Korean
- calamiteitDutch
- kalamitetNorwegian
- calamidadePortuguese
- flagel, calamitate, calamitățiRomanian
- несчастье, бедствие, катастрофа, бедаRussian
- katastrof, tragediSwedish
- பேரிடர்Tamil
- бідиUkrainian
- مصیبتUrdu
- tai hoạVietnamese
- damifätVolapük
- 災害Chinese
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