catastrophe
catastrophe is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.
- 2.(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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accident
- adversity
- and
- awry
- bad
- badness
- bale
- bane
- blow
- box
- bruise
- buffet
- calamity
- casualty
- cause
- cost
- crying
- damage
- demon
- destruction
- deterioration
- devil
- disadvantage
- disadvantageous
- disaster
- disastrous
- disservice
- doer
- drawback
- evil
- field
- flesh
- flood
- foul
- gash
- grievance
- harm
- heir
- hurt
- ill
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is catastrophe.
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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