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Disaster   /dɪzˈæstər/   Listen
Disaster

noun
1.
A state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune.  Synonym: catastrophe.  "His policies were a disaster"
2.
An event resulting in great loss and misfortune.  Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, tragedy.  "The earthquake was a disaster"
3.
An act that has disastrous consequences.



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"Disaster" Quotes from Famous Books



... had to keep moving to keep near her, loaded as they were, but at last they arrived at the scene of Jack's disaster. ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various

... mistress, and a friend, A phoenix, captain, and an enemy, A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign, A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear: His humble ambition, proud humility, His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet, His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms, That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he— I know not what he shall:—God send him well!— The court's a learning-place;—and he ...
— All's Well That Ends Well • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

... was started as an imitation of Monte Carlo, but caused such disaster that it was suppressed. The Lisbon officials now visit it once a year to see that there is no gambling going on; the owners know when they sail and remove the tables, and after the "inspection" is over and the officials have returned home, business is resumed in safety ...
— A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel • S. G. Bayne

... his hand. "Say that again with your hand in mine. Promise me that, whatever disaster I bring you, you will remember that ...
— Montlivet • Alice Prescott Smith

... volcano, as described in the last chapter, the settlers resolved to proceed, under the guidance of Malines as captain, and Morris as mate, to the port for which they had originally been bound when the disaster on Refuge Islands ...
— The Island Queen • R.M. Ballantyne


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