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English noun: disaster | |||
| 1. | disaster (state) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune | ||
| Samples | Lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system. His policies were a disaster. | ||
| Synonyms | catastrophe | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | adversity, hard knocks, hardship | ||
| 2. | disaster (event) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | ||
| Samples | The whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity. The earthquake was a disaster. | ||
| Synonyms | calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, tragedy | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bad luck, misfortune | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | act of God, apocalypse, famine, force majeure, inevitable accident, kiss of death, meltdown, plague, tidal wave, tsunami, unavoidable casualty, vis major, visitation | ||
| 3. | disaster (act) an act that has disastrous consequences | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | destruction, devastation | ||
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