Cataclysm Synonyms and Antonyms

kătə-klĭzəm
An occurrence inflicting widespread destruction and distress
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. calamity
  2. catastrophe
  3. disaster
  4. tragedy
A momentous or sweeping change
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. catastrophe
  2. calamity
  3. disaster
  4. upheaval
  5. convulsion
  6. disturbance
  7. cemetery
  8. revolution
  9. collapse
  10. crypt
  11. disastrous
  12. ruin
  13. tomb
  14. tragic
  15. vault
  16. tragedy
Antonyms:
  1. good-fortune
  2. happiness
  3. boon
  4. miracle
  5. wonder
An abundant, usually overwhelming flow or fall, as of a river or rain
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. alluvion
  2. cataract
  3. deluge
  4. downpour
  5. flood
  6. freshet
  7. inundation
  8. niagara
  9. overflow
  10. torrent
  11. spate

Words Related to Cataclysm

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Cataclysm Sentence Examples

  • As early as 1186 the earth had escaped one threatened cataclysm of the astrologers.

  • The most important of all the symptoms of the approaching cataclysm was, however, the growing unrest among the peasants.

  • Yes, a comet slamming into the planet or some galactic cataclysm could wipe us all out.

  • Only a fraction of it has to melt to trigger a cataclysm.

  • In Crete, at least, the excavations show that the old civilization must have ended in a social and political cataclysm.

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