1. (noun) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune

• catastrophe

2. (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

• calamity
• cataclysm
• catastrophe
• tragedy

1. (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

• act of god
• force majeure
• inevitable accident
• unavoidable casualty
• vis major
• apocalypse
• famine
• kiss of death
• meltdown
• plague
• tidal wave
• tsunami
• visitation

1. (noun) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune

• adversity
• hard knocks
• hardship

2. (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

• bad luck
• misfortune

3. (noun) an act that has disastrous consequences

• destruction
• devastation

1. (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

• black
• black
• calamitous
• calamitous
• disastrous
• disastrous
• fatal
• fatal
• fateful
• fateful
• cataclysmal
• cataclysmal
• cataclysmic
• cataclysmic
• tragic
• tragic
• tragical
• tragical