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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope