Calamity
noun
A very serious event causing damage and suffering.
A hurricane has caused a calamity on the island.
Often appears as...
- natural calamity
- utter calamity
noun
A disastrous situation or event.
The stock market crash was a financial calamity.
Often appears as...
- economic calamity
- constant calamity
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A very serious event causing damage and suffering.
A hurricane has caused a calamity on the island.
Often appears as...
- natural calamity
- utter calamity
noun
A disastrous situation or event.
The stock market crash was a financial calamity.
Often appears as...
- economic calamity
- constant calamity
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Severity Scale
Use 'calamity' for events more destructive than 'accidents' but less than 'apocalypses'.
The forest fire was a calamity for the affected wildlife.
Pro Tip 2/3Human Suffering
'Calamity' often implies that people were harmed or are in distress.
The famine represented a great calamity for the region.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Personal
Typically not used for personal troubles unless they're extremely severe, affecting many.
Losing her job was a calamity for her entire family.
Pro Tip 1/3Severity Scale
Use 'calamity' for events more destructive than 'accidents' but less than 'apocalypses'.
The forest fire was a calamity for the affected wildlife.
Pro Tip 2/3Human Suffering
'Calamity' often implies that people were harmed or are in distress.
The famine represented a great calamity for the region.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Personal
Typically not used for personal troubles unless they're extremely severe, affecting many.
Losing her job was a calamity for her entire family.
Pro Tip 1/3Severity Scale
Use 'calamity' for events more destructive than 'accidents' but less than 'apocalypses'.
The forest fire was a calamity for the affected wildlife.
Pro Tip 2/3Human Suffering
'Calamity' often implies that people were harmed or are in distress.
The famine represented a great calamity for the region.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Personal
Typically not used for personal troubles unless they're extremely severe, affecting many.
Losing her job was a calamity for her entire family.
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Math class needs a...
world around us this is hard to teach there's what we would love students to retain even if they don't go into mathematical fields this is also something that the way we teach it in the US all but ensures they won't retain it so I like talk about why that is why that's such a calamity for society what can do about it and to close with why this is an amazing time to be a math
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Steven Pinker and...
of this dreadful calamity. He would, I imagine, first of all express very strongly his sorrow for the misfortune of that unhappy people. He would make many melancholy reflections upon the precariousness of human life, and when all these humane sentiments had been once fairly expressed, he would pursue his business or his pleasure
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The Water Crisis PIPE...
what we call deadpool when you just can't get water out of the lake anymore and that would be an absolute disaster for millions of people downstream that is a calamity that we cannot afford to let happen and that's sort of what i'm dedicating my life to is trying to help us work through these problems the colorado
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How Ethics Can Help You...
an entirely unrelated global calamity and tell the other person that they shouldn't care about whatever they care about, because they should care about that instead. That world would suck, right? Like, your sister borrows five dollars from you, you ask for it back,
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John Bohannon: Dance vs....
Of course someday, in the deep future, a technology of persuasion even more powerful than PowerPoint may be invented, rendering dancers unnecessary as tools of rhetoric. However, I trust that by that day, we shall have passed this present financial calamity.
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We Are What We Eat:...
In every duration, whether it is peace, whether it is trouble, whether it is earthquake, whether it is something calamity. So, Inshallah the world will come very peaceful and we shall be one. And because the world is becoming now
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Surviving a nuclear...
characterized by a nation versus nation very fragile standoff and basically we lived for all those years and some might argue that we still do in a situation of being on the brink literally of an apocalyptic planetary calamity
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Why should you read "One...
The settlement begins in a mythical state of isolation, but is gradually exposed to the outside world, facing multiple calamities along the way. As years pass, characters grow old and die, only to return as ghosts,
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Del Harvey: The...
Sounds straightforward, right? You might even think it'd be easy, given that I just said the vast majority of activity on Twitter puts no one in harm's way. Why spend so much time searching for potential calamities
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A Big Cat Wild Kill & a...
calamity with his unrivaled knowledge of these remote regions Nisar is ideally qualified to lead a team of mountain survival experts and deliver aid directly to those most in need
Video examples
Math class needs a...
world around us this is hard to teach there's what we would love students to retain even if they don't go into mathematical fields this is also something that the way we teach it in the US all but ensures they won't retain it so I like talk about why that is why that's such a calamity for society what can do about it and to close with why this is an amazing time to be a math
Video examples
Steven Pinker and...
of this dreadful calamity. He would, I imagine, first of all express very strongly his sorrow for the misfortune of that unhappy people. He would make many melancholy reflections upon the precariousness of human life, and when all these humane sentiments had been once fairly expressed, he would pursue his business or his pleasure
Video examples
The Water Crisis PIPE...
what we call deadpool when you just can't get water out of the lake anymore and that would be an absolute disaster for millions of people downstream that is a calamity that we cannot afford to let happen and that's sort of what i'm dedicating my life to is trying to help us work through these problems the colorado
Video examples
How Ethics Can Help You...
an entirely unrelated global calamity and tell the other person that they shouldn't care about whatever they care about, because they should care about that instead. That world would suck, right? Like, your sister borrows five dollars from you, you ask for it back,
Video examples
John Bohannon: Dance vs....
Of course someday, in the deep future, a technology of persuasion even more powerful than PowerPoint may be invented, rendering dancers unnecessary as tools of rhetoric. However, I trust that by that day, we shall have passed this present financial calamity.
Video examples
We Are What We Eat:...
In every duration, whether it is peace, whether it is trouble, whether it is earthquake, whether it is something calamity. So, Inshallah the world will come very peaceful and we shall be one. And because the world is becoming now
Video examples
Surviving a nuclear...
characterized by a nation versus nation very fragile standoff and basically we lived for all those years and some might argue that we still do in a situation of being on the brink literally of an apocalyptic planetary calamity
Video examples
Why should you read "One...
The settlement begins in a mythical state of isolation, but is gradually exposed to the outside world, facing multiple calamities along the way. As years pass, characters grow old and die, only to return as ghosts,
Video examples
Del Harvey: The...
Sounds straightforward, right? You might even think it'd be easy, given that I just said the vast majority of activity on Twitter puts no one in harm's way. Why spend so much time searching for potential calamities
Video examples
A Big Cat Wild Kill & a...
calamity with his unrivaled knowledge of these remote regions Nisar is ideally qualified to lead a team of mountain survival experts and deliver aid directly to those most in need
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Earl Browder
American Activist
What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick
American Clergyman
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
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Margaret Chan
Chinese Public Servant
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.
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Antonio Guterres
Portuguese Politician
The twenty-first century will be characterized by the mass movement of people being pushed and pulled within and beyond their borders by conflict, calamity, or opportunity.
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Porter Stansberry
American Publisher
By buying off the bottom in the real estate markets, I'm doing the best I can to protect myself from any future calamity. Time will tell whether it will work.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Irish Poet
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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Sydney Smith
English Clergyman
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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Bill Watterson
American Cartoonist
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
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Horace
Roman Poet
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
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Virgil
Roman Poet
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
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Earl Browder
American Activist
What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.
Quote examples
Harry Emerson Fosdick
American Clergyman
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
Quote examples
Margaret Chan
Chinese Public Servant
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis.
Quote examples
Antonio Guterres
Portuguese Politician
The twenty-first century will be characterized by the mass movement of people being pushed and pulled within and beyond their borders by conflict, calamity, or opportunity.
Quote examples
Porter Stansberry
American Publisher
By buying off the bottom in the real estate markets, I'm doing the best I can to protect myself from any future calamity. Time will tell whether it will work.
Quote examples
Oliver Goldsmith
Irish Poet
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Quote examples
Sydney Smith
English Clergyman
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Quote examples
Bill Watterson
American Cartoonist
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
Quote examples
Horace
Roman Poet
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Quote examples
Virgil
Roman Poet
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Example 1 of 10
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