Catastrophe
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English
Noun
Catastrophe (plural Catastrophes)- Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
- (insurance) A disaster beyond expectations
- (narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot in a tragedy.
- (mathematics) A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
Adjectives for Catastrophe
tremendous; awful; imminent; historical; welcome; dire; impending; tragic; inevitable; general; calamitous; world-wide; ironical; picturesque; national; unexpected; crowning; unavertable; overwhelming; breath-taking; dreadful; unforeseen.
Verbs for Catastrophe
avert—; culminate in—; experience—; inflict with—; mourn—; plunge into—; result in—; rush to—; suffer—; survive—; — distresses; —looms; —overwhelms; — shocks; —threatens.
Synonyms for Catastrophe
misfortune, calamity, disaster, misadventure, mishap, mischance, misery, revolution, visitation, affliction, cataclysm, blow.
Antonyms for Catastrophe
blessing, benefit, prosperity, favor, success, comfort, privilege, happiness, pleasure.
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Thesaurus
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, 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,
Alternative forms
- catastrophë (now rare)
Etymology
From Ancient Greek καταστροφή (katastrophē) from καταστρέφω (katastrephō, “I overturn”) from κατά (kata, “down, against”) + στρέφω (strephō, “I turn”)
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Etymology
From Ancient Greek, see above
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Catastrophe f. (plural Catastrophes)
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