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- Dictionarycatastrophe/kəˈtastrəfi/
noun
- 1. an event causing great and usually sudden damage or suffering; a disaster: "an environmental catastrophe"
- 2. the denouement of a drama, especially a classical tragedy.
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a sudden event that causes very great trouble or destruction: They were warned of the ecological catastrophe to come. a bad situation: The emigration of scientists is a catastrophe for the country. Synonyms. calamity. cataclysm literary. crisis. disaster. emergency. tragedy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Accidents and disasters.
: a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin. Deforestation and erosion can lead to an ecological catastrophe. 2. : utter failure : fiasco. the party was a catastrophe. 3. a. : a violent and sudden change in a feature of the earth. b. : a violent usually destructive natural event (such as a supernova) 4.
noun. a sudden and widespread disaster: the catastrophe of war. Synonyms: calamity, misfortune. Antonyms: triumph. any misfortune, mishap, or failure; fiasco: The play was so poor our whole evening was a catastrophe. a final event or conclusion, usually an unfortunate one; a disastrous end: the great catastrophe of the Old South at Appomattox.
A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage. From all points of view, war would be a catastrophe. ...the economic and environmental catastrophe that the oil leak has caused. Synonyms: disaster, tragedy, calamity, meltdown [informal] More Synonyms of catastrophe.
a sudden event that causes very great trouble or destruction: They were warned of the ecological catastrophe to come. a bad situation: The emigration of scientists is a catastrophe for the country. Synonyms. calamity. cataclysm literary. crisis. disaster. emergency. tragedy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Accidents and disasters.
1. A great, often sudden calamity. 2. A complete failure; a fiasco: The food was cold, the guests quarreled—the whole dinner was a catastrophe. 3. The concluding action of a drama, especially a classical tragedy, following the climax and containing a resolution of the plot. 4. A sudden violent change in the earth's surface; a cataclysm.
Definition of catastrophe noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
CATASTROPHE definition: an extremely bad event that causes a lot of suffering or destruction: . Learn more.
noun. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune. synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, disaster, tragedy. see more. noun. a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune. “lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system” synonyms: disaster. see more. Pronunciation. US. /kəˈtæstrəfi/ UK. /kəˈtæstrəfi/ Cite this entry.
A sudden and violent change in the physical order of things, such as a sudden upheaval, depression, or convulsion affecting the earth's surface, and the living beings upon it, by which some have supposed that the successive geological periods were suddenly brought to an end. (Cf. cataclysm n., catastrophism n.) 1832.
