1. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune
   "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"
   - catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm

Derived forms: calamities

See also: calamitous

Type of: bad luck, misfortune

Encyclopedia: Calamity

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