calamitynoun [ C ]
uk/kəˈlæm.ə.ti/us/kəˈlæm.ə.t̬i/a serious accident or bad event causing damage or suffering:
A series of calamities ruined them - floods, a failed harvest, and the death of a son.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Accidents and disasters
- a knockout blow idiom
- accident
- accidental
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- banana skin
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- debacle
- devil
- disastrous
- emergency
- forest fire
- holocaust
- knockout
- meltdown
- misadventure
- snafu
- the devil to pay idiom
- tragedy
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calamitous
adjective uk/kəˈlæm.ɪ.təs/us/kəˈlæm.ə.t̬əs/
calamitously
adverb uk/kəˈlæm.ɪ.təs.li/us/kəˈlæm.ə.t̬əs.li/