Definitions of calamity

1. A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery.

2. Any cause that produces evil, disaster, or extreme misfortune; distress; affliction.

3. A great misfortune: affliction.

4. Calamitous.

5. Misfortune; disaster; affliction.

6. A misfortune or disaster; adversity.

7. Calamityness.

8. A misfortune that causes either wide- spread or great distress; cause of misery; adversity; affliction; disaster.

9. A great misfortune or cause of misery.

10. Calamityly.