disaster
An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.
Example
“People would suffer disasters when society's morality degenerates.”
Other meanings
An unforeseen event causing great loss, upset or unpleasantness of whatever kind.
A skateboard trick involving a 180-degree ollie, landing on the center of the board with the front trucks facing towards the ramp and the back trucks over the lip. The skater then leans forwards to return in the ramp.
Related words
- disasterclass
- disasterless
- disasterly
- disasterpiece
- ecodisaster
- megadisaster
- minidisaster
- nondisaster
- postdisaster
- predisaster
- recipe for disaster
- disastrophe
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "ἄστρον" (star).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “disaster” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.