cataclysm

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

noun

1. a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
• Syn:
catastrophe
• Hypernyms:
geological phenomenon
• Hyponyms:
nuclear winter
2. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity
- the earthquake was a disaster
• Syn:
calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy
• Derivationally related forms:
cataclysmic, cataclysmal, tragical (for: tragedy), tragic (for: tragedy), disastrous (for: disaster), calamitous (for: calamity)
• Hypernyms:
misfortune, bad luck
• Hyponyms:
act of God, force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty,
apocalypse, famine, kiss of death, meltdown, plague, visitation,
tidal wave, tsunami

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy