Associations to the word «Calamity»

Wiktionary

CALAMITY, noun. An event resulting in great loss.
CALAMITY, noun. The distress that results from some disaster.

Dictionary definition

CALAMITY, noun. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster".

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca