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- Dictionaryca·lam·i·ty/kəˈlamədē/
noun
- 1. an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster: "the journey had led to calamity and ruin"
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The meaning of CALAMITY is a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering. How to use calamity in a sentence.
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. Synonyms. cataclysm literary. catastrophe. crisis. disaster. emergency. tragedy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Accidents and disasters. accidentally on purpose idiom.
Calamity definition: a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury.. See examples of CALAMITY used in a sentence.
1. a disaster or misfortune, esp one causing extreme havoc, distress, or misery. 2. a state or feeling of deep distress or misery. [C15: from French calamité, from Latin calamitās; related to Latin incolumis uninjured]
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. Synonyms. cataclysmliterary. catastrophe. crisis. disaster. emergency. tragedy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Accidents and disasters. accidentally on purposeidiom.
A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress. [ formal ] He described drugs as the greatest calamity of the age.
Use the word calamity to describe an event that causes great harm and misery, or a general state of distress or misery: the calamity of war.
Calamity definition: An event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster.
CALAMITY definition: a sudden, bad event that causes a lot of damage or unhappiness. Learn more.
calamity. noun. /kəˈlæməti/. /kəˈlæməti/. [countable, uncountable] (plural calamities) an event that causes great damage to people’s lives, property, etc. synonym disaster. The country suffered a series of calamities during the 1980s.
