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disaster - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: disaster
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: accident, trouble
Synonyms: act of God*, adversity, affliction, bad luck, bad news*, bale, bane, blight, blow, bust, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, collision, crash, debacle, defeat, depression, emergency, exigency, failure, fall, fiasco, flood, flop, grief, harm, hazard, holocaust, hot water, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, reverse, rock, rough, ruin, setback, slip, stroke, tragedy, undoing, upset, washout*, woe, fell stroke, hard luck, ill luck, ruination, the worst
Antonyms: blessing, good luck, miracle, prosperity, success, triumph, win, wonder, good fortune
Main Entry: adversity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bad luck, situation
Synonyms: affliction, bummer*, calamity, can of worms*, catastrophe, clutch, contretemps, crunch*, difficulty, disaster, distress, downer*, drag*, evil eye*, hard knocks*, hardship, jam, jinx, kiss of death*, misery, misfortune, mishap, pain in the neck*, poison*, reverse, sorrow, suffering, trial, trouble, bad break, hard times, hurting, ill fortune, on the skids, the worst, tough luck
Antonyms: aid, encouragement, favor, fortune, good luck, help, prosperity
Main Entry: bad scene
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misfortunate event
Synonyms: bad trip*, bummer*, disaster, downer*, drag*, raw deal, bum trip, depressing experience, rotten hand, unhappy situation, unpleasant experience, unpleasant situation
Main Entry: bad trip
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unpleasant experience
Synonyms: bad scene, bummer*, disaster, downer*, drag*, bum trip, freak-out, unhappy situation, unpleasant drug experience, unpleasant situation
Main Entry: bane
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: cause of misery
Synonyms: affliction, blight, burden, calamity, curse, despair, destruction, disaster, downfall, misery, nuisance, pest, plague, poison, ruin, scourge, torment, trial, trouble, undoing, venom, woe, bête noir, fatal attraction, ruination
Antonyms: advantage, blessing, fortune, good luck
Main Entry: bankruptcy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: inability to pay debts
Synonyms: Chapter 11*, default, destitution, disaster, exhaustion, failure, indebtedness, indigence, lack, loss, nonpayment, privation, repudiation, ruin, defalcation, destituteness, insolvency, liquidation, overdraft, pauperism, ruination
Antonyms: richness, solvency, wealth
Main Entry: bummer
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bad experience
Synonyms: disappointment, disaster, downer*, drag*, misfortune
Main Entry: catastrophe
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: calamity; unhappy conclusion
Synonyms: accident, adversity, affliction, 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, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, scourge, stroke, termination, tragedy, trial, trouble, upshot, waterloo*, wreck, alluvion, meltdown, the worst
Antonyms: benefit, blessing, favor, good luck, happiness, miracle, success, wonder, good fortune
Main Entry: crisis
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: critical situation
Synonyms: catastrophe, change, climax, confrontation, contingency, corner, crossroad, crunch*, crux, culmination, deadlock, dilemma, dire straits, disaster, embarrassment, emergency, entanglement, exigency, extremity, height, imbroglio, impasse, juncture, mess, moment of truth*, necessity, pass, pickle*, pinch*, plight, point of no return*, predicament, pressure, puzzle, quandary, situation, stew, strait, trauma, trial, trouble, turning point, urgency, big trouble, climacteric, hot potato, hour of decision, perplexity
Antonyms: calm, peace
Main Entry: debacle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: catastrophe
Synonyms: beating, breakdown, collapse, crash, defeat, devastation, disaster, dissolution, downfall, failure, fiasco, havoc, overthrow, reversal, rout, ruin, smash, smashup, washout, wreck, blue ruin, crack-up, defeasance, drubbing, licking, ruination, shellacking, trouncing, vanquishment
Antonyms: boon, miracle, wonder
Main Entry: doom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fate or decision, usually unpleasant
Synonyms: Judgment Day, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, circumstance, conclusion, condemnation, death, decree, destination, destiny, destruction, disaster, downfall, end, fortune, judgment, karma, kismet, lot, opinion, portion, predestination, ruin, sentence, tragedy, verdict, Moira, annihilation, fixed future, foreordination, handwriting on wall, lap of the gods, predetermination, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles
Main Entry: fatality
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: death, loss; ability to cause such
Synonyms: accident, casualty, disaster, dying, mortality, deadliness, destructiveness, inevitability, lethality, lethalness, necrosis, noxiousness, poisonousness, virulence
Antonyms: birth
Main Entry: fiasco
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: catastrophe
Synonyms: abortion, blunder, breakdown, debacle, disaster, embarrassment, error, failure, farce, flap, flop, mess, miscarriage, route, ruin, stunt, washout*, botched situation, dumb thing to do, dumb trick, screwup
Antonyms: advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, miracle, success, wonder
Main Entry: flop
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: miserable failure
Synonyms: bomb, bust, debacle, disaster, dud*, fiasco, lemon*, loser, miscarriage, washout*, nonstarter
Antonyms: accomplishment, achievement, success
Main Entry: hardship
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: personal burden
Synonyms: accident, adversity, affliction, asperity, austerity, calamity, case, catastrophe, curse, danger, destitution, difficulty, disaster, discomfort, distress, drudgery, fatigue, grief, grievance, hard knocks*, hazard, injury, labor, mischance, misery, misfortune, need, oppression, peril, persecution, privation, rainy day, rigor, sorrow, suffering, toil, torment, travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, vicissitude, want, worry, Herculean task, rotten luck, tough break, tough luck, uphill battle
Antonyms: advantage, assistance, benefit, blessing, ease, favor, gain, good, profit
Main Entry: hurt
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: injury; damage
Synonyms: ache, blow, bruise, chop, detriment, disadvantage, disaster, discomfort, disservice, distress, down, gash, harm, ill, loss, mark, mischief, misfortune, nick, ouch, outrage, pain, pang, persecution, prejudice, ruin, scratch, sore, suffering, wound, wrong, black and blue, boo-boo, ill-treatment, soreness
Antonyms: aid, assist, cure, healing, help, remedy
Main Entry: misadventure
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bad luck, mishap
Synonyms: accident, adversity, blunder, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, debacle, disaster, error, failure, faux pas, lapse, mischance, misfortune, reverse, setback, slip, tragedy, woe, bad break, ill fortune
Antonyms: blessing, good luck, success, triumph, good fortune
Main Entry: mishap
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: accident
Synonyms: blow, blunder, calamity, collision, disaster, fluke*, hazard, misadventure, misfortune, mistake, pileup*, setback, smash*, smashup*, total*, crack-up, fender-bender, ill-fortune, rear-ender, stack-up, wrack-up
Main Entry: rout
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: overwhelming defeat
Synonyms: beating, comedown, confusion, debacle, disaster, embarrassment, flight, hiding, overthrow, retreat, romp, ruin, shambles, trashing, upset, washout*, whipping, clobbering, drubbing, shutout, thrashing, vanquishment, walkover, waxing
Notes: a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an established line of travel or access - or a road, course, or way for travel from one place to another
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