Calamity

Noun

 * 1) An event resulting in great loss
 * 2) An event implying a degree of awkwardness
 * 3) The distress that results from some disaster

Adjectives for Calamity
sudden; near; appalling; frightful; dire; staggering; tremendous; universal; public; painful; evident; undeserved; national; family; inevitable; crowning; impending; ominous; dreadful; absurd; mysterious; natural; inexhaustible; grotesque; unspeakable; ultimate; extraordinary; surrounding; bitter; colossal; temporal; undisguised.

Verbs for Calamity
afflict with—; avert—; avoid—; bear—; beset with -ies; drive to—; free from—; inflict with—; investigate—; involve—; laugh at—; mourn—; overcome—; restore from—; rush to—; save from—; survive—; —arises; —confounds; —damages; —descends; —distresses; —foreshadows; —injures; —menaces; —recurs; —smites; — threatens; —troubles;

Synonyms for Calamity
disaster, misfortune, mishap, mischance, distress, misery, woe, affliction, adversity, sorrow, trouble, grief, tribulation, trial, sadness.

Antonyms for Calamity
benefit, comfort, blessing, happiness, joy, profit, favor, prosperity, advantage.

Thesaurus
accident, adversity, affliction, bane, blow, bugbear, burden, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash, cross, crushing burden, curse, death, desolation, destruction, devastation, disaster, disease, distress, evil, fatal accident, fatality, grief, grievance, hardship, harm, ill hap, infliction, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, nasty blow, nemesis, open wound, pest, pestilence, pileup, plague, reverse, ruin, ruination, running sore, scourge, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, staggering blow, thorn, torment, tragedy, trial, tribulation, trouble, vexation, violent death, visitation, woe, wreck, wretchedness

Etymology
clamare:; calamitas:.