calamity
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6.7
- noun
- /kəˈlæməti/
:
calamidad
- When the factory exploded, it caused a calamity in the surrounding community.
- a natural calamity
- a great calamity
- avoid calamity
And then the man made calamities, as we like to call them, like wars.
- And then the man made calamities, as we like to call them, like wars.
- There is a massive amount of global calamity and crisis and pain happening.
- It's, it's, it's one calamity after another.
- The tidal forces of gravity will create quite a calamity when you're stretched head to toe.
- I think the Weimar Republic destroyed itself in two disastrous economic calamities, the inflation and then the deflation.
- And the presence amidst all the chaos and destruction and calamity was what saved all of their lives.
- But these are the repercussions of this type of economic and like health related calamity.
- To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it.
- And, and so you have, if you were to mark those to market, you would have a a terrible calamity.
- It's been a pain in the rear, just a calamity of different things that were going on with the woodworker, with the interior, with the exterior.
- My concern is precisely to explore religious experience in this context of crisis and calamity religion at the dawn of the Anthropocene.
- He talks about visualizing things that we tend to view as a culture and as individuals, as terrible things, as calamities.
Examples
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A no deal Brexit will deliver a calamity for jobs, for the supply of medicine and food and for peace in Northern Ireland.
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Within forty-eight hours of the calamity, I was giving interviews again.
Fiction book (2002) -
And the year began with another great French victory in the South and a calamity for Spain.
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What a sudden calamity it is for a man of a high birth like you.
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After each calamity, many migrants attempt another journey and another, starting again and again.
Academic text (2012) -
To face calamity with a mind as unclouded as may be, and quickly to react against it.
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Gentlemen, despite the reverses and calamities of the recent past, we believe that this city still has a bright economic future.
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Greatness only emerges when we need it most... in times of war or calamity.
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Irish Americans decried the war as a great calamity and demanded that the government abstain from any involvement.
Academic text (1996) -
The earthquake was a major calamity that affected thousands of families.
Synonyms
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1.0
A sudden event that causes great damage, loss, or failure
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3.0
A very sad event that causes much suffering and loss
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7.0
A sudden terrible event that causes great damage and suffering
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5.8
A sudden total failure that causes serious damage to a system
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4.8
Great destruction that leaves places badly damaged, for example after a war or storm
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9.2
A sudden violent event that causes great destruction or change
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3.7
A situation that is a total failure causing big problems
An event that kills most people or destroys life on Earth
Antonyms
Compounds
A severe famine in Ireland from 1846 to 1851 that killed about one million people
How Disastrous
Surface Forms
Morphology
calamity = calam + ity
The stem 'calam' is not a standalone English word and the noun is a learned borrowing (calamity), so learners cannot derive its meaning from English component parts.
Etymology
The word calamity comes from the Latin calamitas, which means 'damage' or 'loss'. That's why calamity means a sudden disaster that causes great harm, like a storm that destroys homes and leaves people in distress.