About The Word Catastrophe
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Catastrophe Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Catastrophe?
[n] an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"
[n] a sudden violent change in the earth's surface [n] a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies were a disaster" Synonyms | Synonyms for Catastrophe: calamity | cataclysm | cataclysm | disaster | disaster | tragedy Related Terms | Find terms related to Catastrophe: accident | action | anagnorisis | angle | apodosis | architectonics | architecture | argument | atmosphere | background | bad luck | bitter end | bloodless revolution | blow | bouleversement | breakdown | breaking up | breakup | calamity | casualty | cataclysm | cave | cave-in | ceasing | cessation | characterization | clean slate | clean sweep | climax | coda | collapse | collision | color | completion | complication | computer revolution | conclusion | consummation | continuity | contretemps | contrivance | convulsion | counterrevolution | crack of doom | crack-up | crash | culmination | curtain | curtains | death | debacle | decease | denouement | design | destination | destiny | development | device | disaster | doom | effect | end | end point | end result | ending | envoi | epilogue | episode | eschatology | expiration | fable | failure | falling action | fate | fiasco | final result | final solution | final twitch | final words | finale | finality | finis | finish | gimmick | goal | grief | ill hap | incident | izzard | last | last act | last breath | last gasp | last things | last trumpet | last words | latter end | line | local color | misadventure | mischance | misfortune | mishap | mood | motif | movement | mythos | nasty blow | omega | overthrow | overturn | palace revolution | payoff | period | peripeteia | peroration | pileup | plan | plot | quietus | radical change | recognition | resolution | resting place | revolt | revolution | revolutionary war | revulsion | rising action | scheme | secondary plot | shipwreck | shock | slant | smash | smashup | spasm | staggering blow | stoppage | stopping place | story | striking alteration | structure | subject | subplot | subversion | swan song | sweeping change | switch | tabula rasa | technological revolution | term | terminal | termination | terminus | thematic development | theme | tone | topic | total change | total loss | tragedy | transilience | twist | upset | violent change | washout | windup | wrack | wreck | Z See Also | act of God | adversity | apocalypse | bad luck | force majeure | geological phenomenon | hardship | inevitable accident | kiss of death | misfortune | plague | unavoidable casualty | vis major | visitation Catastrophe In Webster's Dictionary \Ca*tas"tro*phe\, n. [L. catastropha, Gr. ?, fr. ?
to turn up and down, to overturn; kata` down + ? to turn.]
1. An event producing a subversion of the order or system of
things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or
disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great
misfortune.
The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London.
--Bp. Burnet.
The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that
nature ever yet saw. --Woodward.
2. The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a
denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a
comedy.
3. (Geol.) A violent and widely extended change in the
surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of
some part of it, effected by internal causes. --Whewell.
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