Synonyms for calamities
calami·ties

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "calamities":

   disasters, catastrophes, scourges

How to pronounce calamities?

How to say calamities in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use calamities in a sentence?

1. Ambrose Bierce:

   Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

2. Mike Pompeo:

   I ’m really worried. I ’m worried about a cascading set of calamities around the world.

3. Prime Minister Antonio Costa:

   We understand the dimension of this horrible tragedy that devastated various municipalities here in Madeira, and we also know about the calamities affecting other zones of the country that now have to be addressed.

4. Ambrose Bierce:

   Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

5. Goldsmith:

   While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives.