Vocabulary
Calamity
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
an event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster.
Urdu meaning
المیہ، سانحہ، آفت، قہر
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- While the WHO`s World Mental Health Today and Mental Health Atlas 2024 reports have highlighted some areas of progress, a vacuum in the global approach to this health calamity is also evident.
- But despite the polarisation and utter bitterness, opposing parties had been traditionally sitting together in times of extreme emergency such as war or a major calamity hitting the country.
- The instinct to politicise calamity is not confined to one side.
- But those that veered and tried to use a natural calamity for political point-scoringwere in for a nasty surprise only a few days later when the province run by their own party KP was hit by an even larger rain-related calamity.
- This prompted worldwide condemnation with UN officials warning it would lead to `unimaginable suffering` and `another calamity`, which would reverberate across the region.
Synonyms
disaster, catastrophe, tragedy, cataclysm, devastating blow, crisis, adversity, blight
Antonyms
godsend, blessing
Curator example
“emergency measures may be necessary in order to avert a calamity”
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