Calamity definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary CALAMITY, n. Any great misfortune, or cause of misery; generally applied ... misfortunes which bring great distress upon individuals. The deliberations of calamity are rarely wise. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1 ... and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" [syn: calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm] Merriam Webster's noun (plural -ties ... and lasting distress and suffering < calamities of nature > < an economic calamity > Oxford Reference Dictionary n. (pl. -ies) 1 a disaster, ...
Calamity Jane definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: United ... 1903) [syn: Burk, Martha Jane Burk, Burke, Martha Jane Burke, Calamity Jane] Merriam Webster's biographical name — see Martha Jane Burk
... of misery. Psalms 38. 4. Any great natural evil or calamity; as the ten plagues of Egypt. PLAGUE, v.t. plag. 1. To infest with disease, calamity or natural evil of any kind. Thus were they plagued ... plague of grasshoppers" [syn: infestation, plague] 4: any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) 5: an ... Date: 14th century 1. a. a disastrous evil or affliction ; calamity b. a destructively numerous influx < a plague of locusts > 2 ... smite, infest, or afflict with or as if with disease, calamity, or natural evil 2. a. to cause worry or distress ... 1. That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or ...
Calamities definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Calamity Ca*lam"i*tyn.; pl. Calamities. [L. calamitas, akin to ... extensive evil, either to communities or individuals. Note: The word calamity was first derived from calamus when the corn could not get out of the stalk. --Bacon. Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul. --W. Irving. 2. A ... or time of distress or misfortune; misery. The deliberations of calamity are rarely wise. --Burke. Where'er I came I brought calamity. --Tennyson. Syn: Disaster; distress; affliction; adversity; misfortune; unhappiness; infelicity; mishap; mischance; misery; evil; extremity; exigency; downfall. Usage: Calamity, Disaster, Misfortune, Mishap, Mischance. Of these words, calamity is ...
... blast or stroke of an unfavorable planet. 2. Misfortune; mishap; calamity; any unfortunate event, especially a sudden misfortune; as, we met ... and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" [syn: calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm] 3: an act that has disastrous ... or unfortunate event, esp. a sudden and extraordinary misfortune; a calamity; a serious mishap. But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger. --Longfellow. Syn: Calamity; misfortune; mishap; mischance; visitation; misadventure; ill luck. See Calamity. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Disaster Dis*as"ter, v. ...
... evil generation. 3. Unfortunate; unhappy; producing sorrow, distress, injury or calamity; as evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days. E'VIL, n ... evil is any thing which produces pain, distress, loss or calamity, or which in any way disturbs the peace, impairs the ... cosmic evil force 2. something that brings sorrow, distress, or calamity Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. & n. --adj. 1 morally bad; wicked ... terrible. --Shak. 3. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days. Because ... by those who suffer for them. Disease, individual and national calamity, drought, scarcity of food, may not always be charged to ... unfortunate, adverse, unpropitious, disastrous, calamitous, woful, bad. II. n. 1. Calamity, ill, woe, misery, pain, suffering, sorrow, misfortune, disaster, reverse. ...
... s 1828 Dictionary MISFOR'TUNE, n. Ill fortune; ill luck; calamity; an evil or cross accident; as loss of property at ... Dictionary Misfortune Mis*for"tune, n. Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance. Consider why the change ... You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault. --Addison. Syn: Calamity; mishap; mischance; misadventure; ill; harm; disaster. See Calamity. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Misfortune Mis*for"tune, v. i ... N-VAR Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Disaster, calamity, reverse, affliction, visitation, trial, blow, stroke, adversity, distress, hardship, trouble ... harm. Moby Thesaurus accident, adversity, bad luck, bad news, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash, cross, ...
... conclusion. 2. A final event; conclusion; generally, an unfortunate conclusion, calamity, or disaster. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: an ... and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" [syn: calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm] 2: a state of extreme (usually ... event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune. The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London ... finishing stroke, final event. 2. Disaster, misfortune, mishap, mischance. See calamity. Moby Thesaurus Z, accident, action, anagnorisis, angle, apodosis, architectonics, architecture ... bitter end, bloodless revolution, blow, bouleversement, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, cave, cave-in, ceasing, cessation, characterization, clean ...
... which the oldest inhabitant is appealed to whether such a calamity as the present has ever been experienced, and all are ... by the singling out of the classes on whom the calamity has fallen, the drinkers of wine, the priests, the vine ... left as to assure the famished land that the supreme calamity, the loss of God, has not fallen. Thus the visitation ... former part in both cases is chiefly descriptive of the calamity, while the latter part is more hortatory. Yet there is ... So that what at the outset was announced as a calamity unprecedented and unparalleled, now becomes a deliverance as enduring as ... people and land may be averted. The removal of the calamity is interpreted as a mark of restored Divine favor ...
... gout, or from the loss of near friends. 4. Affliction; calamity; misery. On earth distress of nations. Luke 21. 5. A ... strain.] 2. To afflict greatly; to harass; to oppress with calamity; to make miserable. Distress not the Moabites. Deutoronomy 2. We ... Syn: Affliction; suffering; pain; agony; misery; torment; anguish; grief; sorrow; calamity; misfortune; trouble; adversity. See Affliction. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Distress ... cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable. We are troubled ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms I. n. 1. Affliction, calamity, disaster, misery, misfortune, adversity, hardship, trial, trouble, perplexity. 2. Anguish ... blight, blow, bother, broken fortune, burden, burden of care, burn, calamity, cankerworm of care, care, catastrophe, chafe, chagrin, cheerlessness, collectivization, ...
... and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" [syn: calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm] 2: drama in which the protagonist ... literary genre of tragic dramas 2. a. a disastrous event ; calamity b. misfortune 3. tragic quality or element Oxford Reference Dictionary ... accident, crime, or natural catastrophe. 2 a sad event; a calamity (the team's defeat is a tragedy). 3 a a ... of English Synonyms n. 1. Dramatic poem, drama, play. 2. Calamity, disaster, catastrophe, shocking event. Moby Thesaurus Aeschylean tragedy, Euripidean tragedy ... Renaissance tragedy, Senecan tragedy, Sophoclean tragedy, accident, adversity, blow, buskin, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collision, contretemps, cothurnus, crack-up, crash, ...
... of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, calamity, adversity, persecution. Many are the afflictions of the righteous. Psalms ... grief. Some virtues are seen only in affliction. --Addison. Syn: Calamity; sorrow; distress; grief; pain; adversity; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; trouble; hardship ... create darkness; I make peace, and create evil (i.e. calamity); I am Yahweh, that doeth all these things" (Isa 45:7) Thus, all things, including calamity, were referred to the Divine operation. The Hebrew when afflicted ... Miall Edwards Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Calamity, adversity, misfortune, disaster, visitation, stroke, ill, reverse, reverse of fortune ... draught, bitter pill, blight, bugbear, bummer, burden, burden of care, calamity, calvary, cankerworm of care, cardiovascular disease, care, catastrophe, chronic ...
... suffers misery from the gout, or from great afflictions, distress, calamity,and other evils. Misery expresses somewhat less than wretchedness. Misery ... are the produce of tares sown in the field. 2. Calamity; misfortune; natural evils which are the cause of misery. And ... in their ways. --Rom. iii. 16. 2. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. When we our betters see bearing our woes, We ... niggardliness; avarice. [Obs.] Syn: Wretchedness; torture; agony; torment; anguish; distress; calamity; misfortune. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary (miseries) 1. Misery is great ... torment. 2. Distress, suffering, wretchedness, agony, torture, torment, anguish. 3. Calamity, misfortune, disaster, evil. Moby Thesaurus Cassandra, Schmerz, ache, aches and ... angst, anguish, anxiety, bale, bitterness, bleeding heart, broken heart, burden, calamity, care, carking care, catastrophe, cheerlessness, crushing, curse, cynic, dampener, ...
... of this capture as a thing past. He sees the calamity as having already come on Jerusalem, and the Edomites as ... mighty men in Edom be able to avert the crushing calamity (Ob 1:1-9). (2) The overthrow of Edom is ... describes the cruelty and shameless gloating over a brother's calamity, in the form of earnest appeals to Edom not to ... called "destruction" (Ob 1:12). Hence, most scholars identify the calamity described by Obadiah with the capture and destruction of Jerusalem ... fell into the hands of the invaders. It was a calamity of no mean proportions. The advocates of a late date ...