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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, calamity, 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
PPDB, the paraphrase database
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?
Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms.
Basically, the bottom line is this : when there's a storm warning, there's some data that suggests that the rate of pregnancies increase, but actually when destruction happens, like a tsunami, then actually your births go down, so there's a difference in what the impact on society is of any natural calamity or a pandemic -- and the forecast suggests that this is much more serious than a tropical storm. It's a tsunami.
Rather than championing shutdowns, she’s spent much of her energy, both in public and behind the scenes, trying to get schools open. And she’s been trying, sometimes uncomfortably, to act as a mediator between desperate parents grieving their kids’ interrupted educations and beleaguered teachers who feel they’re being blamed for a calamity they didn’t create.
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.
This is the next significant miscalculation. The next will be barring certain candidates from running in District Council elections. Both will nicely inflame tensions and increase protests and actions, as that happens, the prospects for the third pending calamity will rise exponentially, postponement of District Council elections. Then it will descend into sustained chaos.
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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