| Main Entry: | waterloo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | final defeat, total defeat |
Synonyms: |
annihilation, beating, collapse, conquest, crushing defeat, drubbing, failure, fall, licking, massacre, overthrow, rout, shellacking, slaughter, thrashing, trashing, trouncing, vanquishment, waxing, whipping, whitewashing |
| 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: | 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: | ruin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | situation of devastation |
Synonyms: |
atrophy, bane, bankruptcy, bath, breakdown, collapse, confusion, crackup, crash, crumbling, damage, decay, defeat, degeneracy, degeneration, demolition, destitution, destruction, deterioration, dilapidation, disintegration, disrepair, dissolution, downfall, downgrade, extinction, failure, fall, havoc, insolvency, loss, nemesis, overthrow, ruination, skids, subversion, the end, undoing, waste, waterloo, wreck, wreckage |
| Notes: | rack is destruction and ruin is destitution; in rack and ruin, rack is a variation of wrack and wreck |
Antonyms: |
building, construction, creation, development, growth |
| Main Entry: | tragedy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disaster |
Synonyms: |
adversity, affliction, bad fortune, bad luck, blight, blow, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, contretemps, curse, curtains, dole, dolor, doom, downer, failure, hard knocks, hardship, humiliation, lot, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, reverse, shock, struggle, the worst, unluckiness, waterloo, woe, wreck |
Antonyms: |
advantage, blessing, boon, success, victory |