catastrophe 的定义
- a sudden and widespread disaster: the catastrophe of war.
- any misfortune, mishap, or failure; fiasco: The play was so poor our whole evening was a catastrophe.
- a final event or conclusion, usually an unfortunate one; a disastrous end: the great catastrophe of the Old South at Appomattox.
- the point at which the circumstances overcome the central motive, introducing the close or conclusion; dénouement.Compare catastasis, epitasis, protasis.
- Geology. a sudden, violent disturbance, especially of a part of the surface of the earth; cataclysm.
- Also called catastrophe function. Mathematics. any of the mathematical functions that describe the discontinuities that are treated incatastrophe theory.
catastrophe 近义词
calamity; unhappy conclusion
catastrophe 的近义词 47 个
- accident
- adversity
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- crash
- debacle
- devastation
- disaster
- emergency
- failure
- fiasco
- hardship
- meltdown
- misery
- mishap
- tragedy
- trouble
- wreck
- affliction
- alluvion
- blow
- contretemps
- culmination
- curtains
- denouement
- desolation
- end
- fatality
- finale
- grief
- havoc
- ill
- infliction
- misadventure
- mischance
- misfortune
- reverse
- scourge
- stroke
- termination
- trial
- upshot
- waterloo
- bad luck
- bad news
- the worst
catastrophe 的反义词 32 个
更多catastrophe例句
- Both are important, but the focus of this piece is preventing further catastrophe.
- Those factors have lead to a surge in trading for catastrophe bonds in the past few days, according to Artemis.
- We’ve shown that there are lots of smart, relatively cheap things we can do now to reduce the risk of another catastrophe like this one.
- The public health crisis has led to an economic catastrophe.
- Once again the federal government is fumbling its response to a catastrophe that disproportionately affects Black people, and once again officials are using stories about looting to place the blame on Black victims of police violence.
- The director left then; he could see the impending catastrophe.
- The 1986 Chernobyl disaster is widely considered to be the greatest nuclear catastrophe in world history.
- In turn, this economic catastrophe subsequently led to the rise of the Nazi party.
- But a Western policy that is blind to the urgent need for reform and justice is certain to end in catastrophe.
- This is a critical system that leaves you one failure away from catastrophe, as in this case.
- To others the fierce desire for social justice obliterates all fear of a general catastrophe.
- This may be called the first day of the revolution, although the object of the meeting was to prevent such a catastrophe.
- On one hand is the yawning gulf of social catastrophe represented by socialism.
- To say that the party looked aghast at this sudden catastrophe, would be to give but a feeble idea of the state of their minds.
- The risk of such a catastrophe might perhaps be avoided, if she would consent to leave the stage and live entirely in Russia.