All catastrophe synonyms

noun catastrophe

• calamity — A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
• devastation — Devastation is severe and widespread destruction or damage.
• accident — An accident happens when a vehicle hits a person, an object, or another vehicle, causing injury or damage.
• crash — A crash is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
• disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
• wreck — any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
• fiasco — a complete and ignominious failure.
• mishap — an unfortunate accident.
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• calamity — A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
• debacle — A debacle is an event or attempt that is a complete failure.
• cataclysm — A cataclysm is an event that causes great change or harm.
• adversity — an unfortunate event or incident
• misery — wretchedness of condition or circumstances.
• tragedy — a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster: stunned by the tragedy of so many deaths.
• casualty — A casualty is a person who is injured or killed in a war or in an accident.
• hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
• meltdown — network meltdown
• fatality — a disaster resulting in death.
• misadventure — an instance of bad fortune; mishap.
• contretemps — A contretemps is a small disagreement that is rather embarrassing.
• stroke — a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur: The defendant and his/her attorney must appear in court.
• affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
• blow — When a wind or breeze blows, the air moves.
• misfortune — adverse fortune; bad luck.
• havoc — great destruction or devastation; ruinous damage.
• upshot — the final issue, the conclusion, or the result: The upshot of the disagreement was a new bylaw.
• curtains — death or ruin; the end
• culmination — Something, especially something important, that is the culmination of an activity, process, or series of events happens at the end of it.
• infliction — the act of inflicting.
• desolation — Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
• finale — the last piece, division, or movement of a concert, opera, or composition.
• grief — keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.
• alluvion — the wash of the sea or of a river
• waterloo — a village in central Belgium, south of Brussels: Napoleon decisively defeated here on June 18, 1815.
• mischance — a mishap or misfortune.
• reverse — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
• scourge — a whip or lash, especially for the infliction of punishment or torture.
• ill — of unsound physical or mental health; unwell; sick: She felt ill, so her teacher sent her to the nurse.
• denouement — In a book, play, or series of events, the denouement is the sequence of events at the end, when things come to a conclusion.
• trial — German Der Prozess. a novel (1925) by Franz Kafka.
• termination — the act of terminating.
• upheaval — strong or violent change or disturbance, as in a society: the upheaval of war.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• bad luck — You can say 'Bad luck', or 'Hard luck', to someone when you want to express sympathy to them.
• bad news — someone or something regarded as undesirable