Disaster
Disaster noun - A sudden violent event that brings about great loss or destruction.
Usage example: hurricanes are natural disasters
Misfortune is a synonym for disaster in accident topic. In some cases you can use "Misfortune" instead a noun "Disaster", when it comes to topics like event, adversity, evil, mishap. popular alternative
Nearby Word: disastrous
Misfortune
Misfortune noun - Bad luck or an example of this.
Usage example: our misfortunes of the last year included the loss of a beloved pet
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- trouble and disaster
- trouble and misfortune
- blow and disaster
- blow and misfortune
- distress and disaster
- distress and misfortune
- accident and disaster
- accident and misfortune
- bad luck and disaster
- bad luck and misfortune
- adversity and disaster
- adversity and misfortune
- affliction and disaster
- affliction and misfortune
How words are described
| good | good disaster | good misfortune |
| particular | particular disaster | particular misfortune |
| utter | utter disaster | utter misfortune |
| actual | actual disaster | actual misfortune |
| Other adjectives: massive, big, great, serious, terrible, horrible, supernatural, new, political, possible, catastrophic, inevitable, impending, greatest, oncoming, comic, recent. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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The board games Jumanji and Zathura, while not inherently evil or malevolent, still often rain down misfortune and disaster on the players in the form of lions, homicidal big game hunters, meteor showers, and invading aliens, depending on which game you're playing.
Source: Artifact of Doom -
It was Achilles' misfortune that the one occassion when it proved to be an outright disaster, with absolutely no precedent, was on his watch.
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This leads to disaster in his life and the lives of his children, especially Biff, and Willy Loman is never able to understand the cause of his misfortune and dies unaware.
Source: Tragedy
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Misfortune and Disaster. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/disaster/misfortune
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