Associations to the word «Calamity»
Noun
- Affliction
- Misfortune
- Famine
- Misery
- Jane
- Epidemic
- Desolation
- Fortitude
- Drought
- Sufferer
- Wickedness
- Distress
- Disaster
- Plague
- Sorrow
- Suffering
- Deliverance
- Prosperity
- Consolation
- Dread
- Catastrophe
- Scourge
- Flood
- Grief
- Evil
- Woe
- Earthquake
- Deluge
- Rejoicing
- Posterity
- Disgrace
- Mankind
- Anguish
- Apprehension
- Visitation
- Doris
- Hardship
- Redress
- Tranquillity
- Sickness
- Insurrection
- Providence
- Shipwreck
- Firmness
- Blunder
- Devastation
- Blessing
- Oppression
- Reproach
- Solace
- Omen
- Cholera
- Lament
- Typhoon
- Commotion
- Greatness
Adjective
Verb
Adverb
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
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.