Crossword-Solution: CATASTROPHE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Catastrophe | n. | An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune. |
| Catastrophe | n. | The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy. |
| Catastrophe | n. | A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes. |
We have 59 clues for the answer “CATASTROPHE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| a state of extreme ruin and misfortune | 1 answer |
| Tragic event | 1 answer |
| Final event in a drama. | 1 answer |
| EVENT subverting order/system of things | 1 answer |
| An event causing great damage | 1 answer |
| Total disaster | 6 answers |
| Complete disaster | 6 answers |
| Utter failure | 8 answers |
| A SUDDEN VIOLENT CHANGE IN THE EARTH'S SURFACE | 11 answers |
| tragedy | 14 answers |
| miscarriage | 15 answers |
| Denouement | 18 answers |
| misadventure | 24 answers |
| Drama | 26 answers |
| GREAT misfortune | 28 answers |
| cataclysm | 29 answers |
| Slaughterhouse | 33 answers |
| Shambles | 33 answers |
| Ordeal | 36 answers |
| butchery | 37 answers |
| untidiness | 38 answers |
| CAUSE of ruin | 40 answers |
| disorganisation | 41 answers |
| carnage | 45 answers |
| Jungle | 47 answers |
| Debacle | 48 answers |
| Fiasco | 51 answers |
| hard life | 54 answers |
| Havoc | 59 answers |
| Upheaval | 59 answers |
| Slaughter | 61 answers |
| hash | 62 answers |
| Medley | 68 answers |
| Revolution | 71 answers |
| Litter | 73 answers |
| Disaster | 73 answers |
| Adversity | 74 answers |
| Clutter | 74 answers |
| Calamity | 74 answers |
| Hardship | 74 answers |
| Tangle | 75 answers |
| Overthrow | 75 answers |
| Puzzlement | 75 answers |
| Tip | 76 answers |
| bewilderment | 77 answers |
| Turmoil | 77 answers |
| Chaos | 83 answers |
| Misfortune | 83 answers |
| failure | 86 answers |
| Jumble | 86 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "CATASTROPHE"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
17 +2
New Suggestion for "CATASTROPHE"
Related word tools
Sentences with CATASTROPHE (5)
Without giving a thought to what might be the feelings of a fellow-creature thus abruptly deprived of its closest companion, Peter began to consider how he could turn the catastrophe to his own use; and he decided to tick, so that wild beasts should believe he was the crocodile and let him pass unmolested.
With the majority such an opinion is shelved with all those trite aphorisms which require some catastrophe to bring their tremendous meanings thoroughly home.
The stair carpet was ruffled and discoloured where I had crouched, soaked to the skin from the thunderstorm the night of the catastrophe.
The correct, *original* Murphy's Law reads: "If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it." This is a principle of defensive design, cited here because it is usually given in mutant forms less descriptive of the challenges of design for lusers.
Then Jellyband threw open the door, still stupidly and blindly hoping to avert the catastrophe which he felt was in the air, and the same low, musical voice said, with a merry laugh and mock consternation,— “B-r-r-r-r! I am as wet as a herring! _Dieu!_ has anyone ever seen such a contemptible climate?” “Suzanne, come with me at once—I wish it,” said the Comtesse, peremptorily.
Quotes with CATASTROPHE (3)
I am nothing more than the consequence of catastrophe.
The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? What sort of character did I hope to show? Was I content with myself and what I had done with my life so far? I decided that I was essentially a good person, although I could have been better--but at the same time I understood that the cancer didn't care. I asked myself what I beli…
Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees — which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, The Atlantic, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1952–2022).