• n.
    ⦿a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
    lexical concept
  • his policies were a disaster
  • lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:catastrophe
  2. enl:disaster
wn:interlingual indexili:i113078

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelcatastrophedisaster