catastrophe - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

Synonyms

• calamity
• cataclysm
• catastrophe
• disaster
• tragedy

More generic

• bad luck
• misfortune

More specific

• act of God
• apocalypse
• famine
• force majeure
• inevitable accident
• kiss of death
• meltdown
• plague
• tidal wave
• tsunami
• unavoidable casualty
• vis major
• visitation

Noun

a sudden violent change in the earth's surface

Synonyms

• cataclysm
• catastrophe

More generic

• geological phenomenon

More specific

• nuclear winter

Noun

a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune

Synonyms

• catastrophe
• disaster

More generic

• adversity
• hard knocks
• hardship

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