the great calamity

Questions about the great calamity

What is another word for the great calamity?

It depends which the great calamity you mean. In the sense “a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)”, the synonyms are the Irish Famine, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation. Across all 1 sense there are 3 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of the great calamity?

WordNet records no antonym for the great calamity. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for the great calamity come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of the great calamity

• Full entry for the great calamityAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for the great calamityWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.