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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad luck, situation |
| Synonyms: | affliction, bad break, bummer, calamity, can of worms, catastrophe, clutch, contretemps, crunch, difficulty, disaster, distress, downer, drag*, evil eye, hard knocks, hard times, hardship, hurting, ill fortune, jam, jinx, kiss of death, misery, misfortune, mishap, on the skids, pain in the neck, poison*, reverse, sorrow, suffering, the worst, tough luck, trial, trouble |
| Antonyms: | aid, encouragement, favor, fortune, good luck, help, prosperity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | catastrophe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calamity; unhappy conclusion |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, alluvion, bad luck, bad news, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, contretemps, crash, culmination, curtains, debacle, denouement, desolation, devastation, disaster, emergency, end, failure, fatality, fiasco, finale, grief, hardship, havoc, ill, infliction, meltdown, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, scourge, stroke, termination, the worst, tragedy, trial, trouble, upshot, waterloo, wreck |
| Antonyms: | benefit, blessing, favor, good fortune, good luck, happiness, miracle, success, wonder |
| Main Entry: | disaster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accident, trouble |
| Synonyms: | act of God, adversity, affliction, bad luck, bad news, bale, bane, blight, blow, bust, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, collision, crash, debacle, defeat, depression, emergency, exigency, failure, fall, fell stroke, fiasco, flood, flop, grief, hard luck, harm, hazard, holocaust, hot water, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, reverse, rock, rough, ruin, ruination, setback, slip, stroke, the worst, tragedy, undoing, upset, washout, woe |
| Antonyms: | blessing, good fortune, good luck, miracle, prosperity, success, triumph, win, wonder |
| Main Entry: | tragedy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disaster |
| Synonyms: | adversity, affliction, bad fortune, bad luck, blight, blow, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, contretemps, curse, curtains, dole, dolor, doom, downer, failure, hard knocks, hardship, humiliation, lot, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, reverse, shock, struggle, the worst, unluckiness, waterloo, woe, wreck |
| Antonyms: | advantage, blessing, boon, success, victory |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Adversity. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
adversity, evil; failure; bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot; frowns of fortune; evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius; ups and downs of life, broken fortunes; hard case, hard lines, hard life; sea of troubles; peck of troubles; hell upon earth; slough of despond., trouble, hardship, curse, blight, blast, load, pressure., pressure of the times, iron age, evil day, time out of joint; hard times, bad times, sad times; rainy day, cloud, dark cloud, gathering clouds, ill wind; visitation, infliction; affliction (painfulness); bitter pill; care, trial; the sport of fortune., mishap, mischance, misadventure, misfortune; disaster, calamity, catastrophe; accident, casualty, cross, reverse, check, contretemps, rub; backset, comedown, setback [U.S.]., losing game; falling; fall, downfall; ruination, ruinousness; undoing; extremity; ruin (destruction).
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