A catastrophe is a disaster. If a wedding reception is disrupted by a fistfight between the bride and her new mother in law, you could call the occasion a catastrophe.
An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.
Noun
an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"
Noun
a sudden violent change in the earth''s surface
Noun
a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies were a disaster"
n.
An event producing a subversion of the order or system
of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature;
hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.
n.
The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a
denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.
n.
A violent and widely extended change in the surface of
the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected
by internal causes.
Catastrophe
The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London.
The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw.2.
An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.
Usage Examples
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
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Other Usage ExamplesFeeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
If you're under 26, you can stay on your parents' plan. You can go back to school or get extra training without fear of a health catastrophe bankrupting your family. Over three million previously uninsured young adults are now on their parents' plans.
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can be learned from the event - not least something as profound as the theory of plate tectonics - then it somehow puts the ruination into a much more positive light.
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.
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