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say it: kuh-LAM-uh-tee
calamity is a noun meaning "an event resulting in great loss and misfortune". It carries one recorded sense.
an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
“the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity”
“the earthquake was a disaster”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for calamity come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.