act of god

1. 1.

   a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events

   “he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God”

   Synonymsforce majeurevis majorinevitable accidentunavoidable casualty

   Broadercalamity

Questions about act of god

What does act of god mean?

act of god means "a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events".

What is another word for act of god?

Close synonyms include force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is act of god a common word?

act of god is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.