| Find a new word. | This is such a wonderful opportunity | for healing and good to come of this. There could be so many voters who are | on one side or the other. | 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 |
| Main Entry: | bad luck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rotten break |
| Synonyms: | adversity, bad break, blow, devil's own luck, hard cheese, hard luck, hard time, hardship, ill luck, mischance, misfortune, raw deal, reverse, rotten luck, setback, tough break, tough luck, tragedy |
| Main Entry: | blow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | catastrophe |
| Synonyms: | affliction, balk, bolt from the blue, bombshell, calamity, casualty, chagrin, comedown, debacle, disappointment, disaster, disgruntlement, frustration, jolt, letdown, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, reverse, setback, shock, tragedy , upset |
| Antonyms: | good fortune, luck |
| Main Entry: | cataclysm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disaster |
| Synonyms: | calamity, cataract, catastrophe, collapse, convulsion, crunch, curtains, debacle, deluge, disturbance, double trouble, flood, flooding, holy mess, inundation, misadventure, ruin, torrent, tragedy , unholy mess, upheaval, waterloo, woe |
| Antonyms: | boon, good fortune, happiness, miracle, wonder |
| 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: | doom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate or decision, usually unpleasant |
| Synonyms: | Judgment Day, Moira, annihilation, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, circumstance, conclusion, condemnation, death, decree, destination, destiny, destruction, disaster, downfall, end, fixed future, foreordination, fortune, handwriting on wall, judgment, karma, kismet, lap of the gods, lot, opinion, portion, predestination, predetermination, ruin, sentence, tragedy , verdict, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles |
| Main Entry: | drama |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theatrical piece; acting |
| Synonyms: | Broadway, boards, climax, comedy, dramatic art, dramatization, dramaturgy, farce, footlights, histrionic art, melodrama, play, production, scene, show, show business, showmanship, stage show, stagecraft, tear-jerker, theater, theatricals, thespian art, tragedy , vehicle* |
| Antonyms: | comedy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | drama |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turmoil in real life |
| Synonyms: | climax, comedy, crisis, dramatics, emotion, excitement, farce, histrionics, melodrama, scene, spectacle, tension, theatrics, tragedy |
| Main Entry: | misadventure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad luck, mishap |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, bad break, blunder, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, debacle, disaster, error, failure, faux pas, ill fortune, lapse, mischance, misfortune, reverse, setback, slip, tragedy , woe |
| Antonyms: | blessing, good fortune, good luck, success, triumph |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2011 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Copyright © 2011 by the Philip Lief Group.
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