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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne