Associations to the word «Calamity»

Wiktionary

CALAMITY, noun. An event resulting in great loss.
CALAMITY, noun. The distress that results from some disaster.

Dictionary definition

CALAMITY, noun. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats