Definitions for calamities

calamities ca·lam·i·ty

Spelling: [kuh-lam-i-tee]
IPA: /kəˈlæm ɪ ti/

Calamities is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 696 anagrams from letters in calamities (aaceiilmst).

Definitions for calamities

noun

  1. a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury.
  2. grievous affliction; adversity; misery:

Origin of calamities

1375-1425; late Middle English calamite Middle French Latin calamitāt- (stem of calamitās), perhaps akin to incolumitās safety

Examples for calamities

Maybe there's a route, somewhere in there, towards an end to calamities on July 16.

All their calamities, except the plague, were the foreseen results of their own decision.

Then there will be earthquakes, tsunamis, and other calamities.

calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

It was about the passive indifference of a nation that seems content to allow these daily calamities to persist.

But now, to that list of calamities to learn from, we need to add “mass extinctions.”

Others have been saved before now from calamities yet deeper than ours.

The calamities that lie in ambush for us are ever present to our thoughts.

Our forefathers had their own ways of accounting for each of these calamities.

But then, through a series of calamities typical of The Comeback, she ends up auditioning for the show…and gets the part.

Word Value for calamities
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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