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Definitions for Disaster
[1] a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
[2] Obsolete . an unfavorable aspect of a star or planet.
[3] an occurrence that causes great distress or destruction
[4] a thing, project, etc, that fails or has been ruined
Words related to Disaster
harm, crash, catastrophe, emergency, failure, fiasco, holocaust, mishap, flood, calamity, debacle, setback, defeat, hazard, woe, tragedy, collapse, ruination, undoing, misadventure
Words nearby Disaster
disarticulation, disassemble, disassembler, disassociate, disassortative mating, disaster, disaster area, disaster capitalism, disastrous, disavow, disavowal
Origin of Disaster
1585–95; < Middle French desastre < Italian disastro, equivalent to dis- dis-1 + astro star < Latin astrum < Greek ástron
Other words from Disaster
pre·dis·as·ter , noun
Word origin for Disaster
C16 (originally in the sense: malevolent astral influence): from Italian disastro, from dis- (pejorative) + astro star, from Latin astrum, from Greek astron
Synonyms for Disaster
calamity, catastrophe, collapse, crash, debacle, defeat, emergency, failure, fiasco, flood, harm, hazard, holocaust, mishap, setback, tragedy, woe, adversity, affliction, bale, bane, blight, blow, bust, casualty, cataclysm, collision, depression, exigency, fall, flop, grief, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, reverse, rock, rough, ruin, ruination, slip, stroke, undoing, upset, washout, act of God, bad luck, bad news, fell stroke, hard luck, hot water, ill luck, the worst