| Main Entry: | calamity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disaster; tragedy |
Synonyms: |
adversity, affliction, blue ruin, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, cross, curtains, distress, downfall, hardship, holy mess, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, reverse, ruin, scourge, the worst, trial, tribulation, unholy mess, visitation, waterloo, woe, wreck, wretchedness |
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advantage, blessing, boon, comfort, fortune, good fortune, good luck, happiness, joy, profit |
| Main Entry: | accident |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unexpected, undesirable event; often physically injurious |
Synonyms: |
blow, calamity, casualty, collision, crack-up, disaster, fender-bender, fluke, hazard, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, pileup, rear ender, setback, smash*, smashup, stack-up, total*, wrack-up |
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intent, intention, necessity, plan, provision |
| Main Entry: | adversity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad luck, situation |
Synonyms: |
affliction, bad break, bummer, calamity, can of worms, catastrophe, clutch, contretemps, crunch, difficulty, disaster, distress, downer, drag*, evil eye, hard knocks, hard times, hardship, hurting, ill fortune, jam, jinx, kiss of death, misery, misfortune, mishap, on the skids, pain in the neck, poison*, reverse, sorrow, suffering, the worst, tough luck, trial, trouble |
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aid, encouragement, favor, fortune, good luck, help, prosperity |
| Main Entry: | affliction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hurt condition; something that causes hurt |
Synonyms: |
adversity, anguish, calamity, cross, crux, depression, difficulty, disease, disorder, distress, grief, hardship, illness, infirmity, misery, misfortune, ordeal, pain, plague, plight, scourge, sickness, sorrow, suffering, torment, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe |
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aid, comfort, consolation, health, help, relief |
| Main Entry: | bane |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cause of misery |
Synonyms: |
affliction, blight, burden, bête noir, calamity, curse, despair, destruction, disaster, downfall, fatal attraction, misery, nuisance, pest, plague, poison, ruin, ruination, scourge, torment, trial, trouble, undoing, venom, woe |
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advantage, blessing, fortune, good luck |
| Main Entry: | blow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | catastrophe |
Synonyms: |
affliction, balk, bolt from the blue, bombshell, calamity, casualty, chagrin, comedown, debacle, disappointment, disaster, disgruntlement, frustration, jolt, letdown, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, reverse, setback, shock, tragedy, upset |
Antonyms: |
good fortune, luck |
| Main Entry: | casualty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accident |
Synonyms: |
blow, calamity, catastrophe, chance, contingency, debacle, disaster, misadventure, misfortune, mishap |
| Main Entry: | cataclysm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disaster |
Synonyms: |
calamity, cataract, catastrophe, collapse, convulsion, crunch, curtains, debacle, deluge, disturbance, double trouble, flood, flooding, holy mess, inundation, misadventure, ruin, torrent, tragedy, unholy mess, upheaval, waterloo, woe |
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boon, good fortune, happiness, miracle, wonder |
| Main Entry: | catastrophe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calamity; unhappy conclusion |
Synonyms: |
accident, adversity, affliction, alluvion, bad luck, bad news, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, contretemps, crash, culmination, curtains, debacle, denouement, desolation, devastation, disaster, emergency, end, failure, fatality, fiasco, finale, grief, hardship, havoc, ill, infliction, meltdown, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, scourge, stroke, termination, the worst, tragedy, trial, trouble, upshot, waterloo, wreck |
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benefit, blessing, favor, good fortune, good luck, happiness, miracle, success, wonder |
| Main Entry: | curse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune wished upon someone |
Synonyms: |
affliction, bane, burden, calamity, cancer, cross, disaster, evil, evil eye, hydra, jinx, ordeal, pestilence, plague, scourge, torment, tribulation, trouble, vexation, voodoo |