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| NOUN | 1 | disaster, catastrophe | A state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune |
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| 2 | disaster, calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, cataclysm | An event resulting in great loss and misfortune | |
| 3 | disaster | An act that has disastrous consequences |
| Sounds | dihzae'ster |
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| Rhymes | abductor, accelerator, accelerometer, and 628 more rhymes in ter... |
| Meaning | A state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune. |
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| Examples | "his policies were a disaster" |
| Synonyms | catastrophe |
| Broader | adversity, hardship, hard knocks |
| Meaning | An event resulting in great loss and misfortune. |
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| Examples | "the earthquake was a disaster" |
| Synonyms | calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, cataclysm |
| Broader | misfortune, bad luck |
| Narrower | act of God, force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty; apocalypse; famine; kiss of death; meltdown; plague; visitation; tidal wave; tsunami |
| Adjectives | disastrous; disastrous |
| Meaning | An act that has disastrous consequences. |
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| Broader | destruction, devastation |
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