| Main Entry: | abortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure |
Synonyms: |
disappointment, disaster, fiasco, misadventure, premature delivery |
Antonyms: |
continuation, success |
| 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: | 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: | 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 |
Antonyms: |
advantage, blessing, boon, comfort, fortune, good fortune, good luck, happiness, joy, profit |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
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 |
Antonyms: |
benefit, blessing, favor, good fortune, good luck, happiness, miracle, success, wonder |
| 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, fell stroke, fiasco, flood, flop, grief, hard luck, harm, hazard, holocaust, hot water, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, reverse, rock, rough, ruin, ruination, setback, slip, stroke, the worst, tragedy, undoing, upset, washout, woe |
Antonyms: |
blessing, good fortune, good luck, miracle, prosperity, success, triumph, win, wonder |
| Main Entry: | emergency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crisis, danger |
Synonyms: |
accident, climax, clutch*, compulsion, crossroad, crunch, depression, difficulty, distress, exigency, extremity, fix, hole, impasse, juncture, meltdown, misadventure, necessity, pass, pinch*, plight, predicament, pressure, push, quandary, scrape, squeeze, strait, tension, turning point, urgency, vicissitude, zero hour |
Antonyms: |
calm, peace |
| Main Entry: | failure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of success |
Synonyms: |
abortion, bankruptcy, bomb, botch, breakdown, bungle, bust, checkmate, collapse, decay, decline, defeat, deficiency, deficit, deterioration, downfall, failing, false step, faux pas, fiasco, flash in the pan, flop, frustration, implosion, inadequacy, lead balloon, lemon, loser, loss, mess, misadventure, miscarriage, misstep, nonperformance, nonsuccess, overthrow, rout, rupture, sinking ship, stalemate, stoppage, total loss, turkey, washout, wreck |
Antonyms: |
accomplishment, achievement, attainment, earnings, gain, merit, success, win |