<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury.</li><li>grievous affliction; adversity; misery: the calamity of war.</li><li>any misfortune, mishap, or failure; fiasco.</li><li>a final event or conclusion, usually an unfortunate one; a disastrous end.</li><li>a sudden, violent disturbance, especially of a part of the surface of the earth; cataclysm.</li><li>the tragic or mournful or calamitous element of drama, of literature generally, or of life.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>