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All catastrophes synonyms

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noun catastrophes

  • calamities — a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury.
  • ruinsruins, 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.
  • misfortunes — adverse fortune; bad luck.
  • tragedies — a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster: stunned by the tragedy of so many deaths.
  • cataclysms — Plural form of cataclysm.
  • accidents — Plural form of accident.
  • adversities — adverse or unfavorable fortune or fate; a condition marked by misfortune, calamity, or distress: Friends will show their true colors in times of adversity.
  • casualties — Military. a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because his or her whereabouts or condition cannot be determined. casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion.
  • afflictions — Plural form of affliction.
  • contretemps — A contretemps is a small disagreement that is rather embarrassing.
  • ills — of unsound physical or mental health; unwell; sick: She felt ill, so her teacher sent her to the nurse.
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