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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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bummer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad experience |
| Synonyms: | disappointment, disaster, downer*, drag*, misfortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost |
| Synonyms: | accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, need, perdition, privation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage, dispossession, impairment, mislaying, misplacing, retardation, squandering |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, success, win |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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