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Definition of calamity:

A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery.
Any great misfortune or cause of misery; - generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals.

Synonyms:

incident, apocalypse, chance, accident, contingency, disaster, happening, annoyance, hap, hazard, whoops, cataclysm, oops, tragedy, drag, debacle, pest, own goal, peeve, help, catastrophe, menace, study at disaster, joke, fortuity, irritation, possibility, adventure, vexation, irritant.

adversity (part of speech: noun)
- dolor,
- affliction,
- hard times,
- contretemps,
- curse,
- tragedy,
- peril,
- misfortune,
- trial,
- adversity,
- woe,
- bad luck,
- catastrophe,
- torment,
- blight,
- tribulation,
- burden,
- hardship,
- poverty,
- agony,
- infliction,
- bane,
- ordeal,
- destitution,
- trouble,
- distress,
- grief,
- difficulty,
- rainy day,
- disaster,
- mishap,
- casualty,
- misadventure,
- poorness,
- misery,
- hard luck
bane (part of speech: noun)
- bane,
- poison,
- curse,
- infection,
- doom,
- evil,
- scourge,
- misfortune,
- ill,
- plague,
- affliction,
- cancer,
- contagion

Usage examples:

Unless these steps are taken Europe, after the present calamity, will be still more subject to the increasing domination of militarism, and liable to be drenched with blood."

- "The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife", Edward Carpenter.
Then he began to tell me stories of the places that we could see- strange stories of domestic calamity, and social conflict, and eccentric passion, and hidden crime.

- "The Blue Flower, and Others", Henry van Dyke.
The following are extracts from some of the earliest letters received in response to the first detailed tidings of our calamity.

- "Missionary Work Among The Ojebway Indians", Edward Francis Wilson.