Catastrophe

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A great, often sudden calamity.
  • n. A complete failure; a fiasco: The food was cold, the guests quarreled—the whole dinner was a catastrophe.
  • n. The concluding action of a drama, especially a classical tragedy, following the climax and containing a resolution of the plot.
  • n. A sudden violent change in the earth's surface; a cataclysm.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
  • n. A disaster beyond expectations
  • n. The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot in a tragedy.
  • n. A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.
  • n. The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.
  • n. A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, .
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The arrangement of actions or interconnection of causes which constitutes the final event of a dramatic piece; the unfolding and winding up of the plot, clearing up difficulties, and closing the play; the dénouement.
  • n. A notable event terminating a connected series; a finishing stroke or wind-up; specifically, an unfortunate conclusion; hence, any great calamity or disaster, especially one happening suddenly or from an irresistible cause.
  • n. In geology, an occurrence of geological importance not in harmony with preceding events, and not the result of causes acting always in a given direction; a cataclysm.
  • n. Synonyms Disaster, Calamity, etc. (see mis-fortune); consummation, finale.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
  • n. a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
  • n. a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hardship    hard knocks    adversity   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    disaster    tragedy    upheaval    crisis    occurrence    defeat    cataclysm    peril    collapse    revolution