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Translate catastrophe from English to French

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catastrophe:
- catastrophe; sinistre; calamité; désastre; misère
Wiktionary:
- catastrophe → catastrophe
- catastrophe → catastrophe, désastre

English

Detailed Translations for catastrophe from English to French

catastrophe:

catastrophe [the ~] nom

the catastrophe (calamity)
la catastrophe; le sinistre; la calamité
- catastrophe [la ~] nom
- sinistre [le ~] nom
- calamité [la ~] nom
the catastrophe (disaster; calamity)
le désastre; la catastrophe; la misère; la calamité
- désastre [le ~] nom
- catastrophe [la ~] nom
- misère [la ~] nom
- calamité [la ~] nom

Translation Matrix for catastrophe:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
calamité	calamity; catastrophe; disaster	accident; adversity; bad luck; calamity; destitution; disaster; evil; fatality; misery; misfortune; misère; reverse; squalor; tribulation; trouble
catastrophe	calamity; catastrophe; disaster	accident; adversity; bad luck; calamity; danger; destitution; disaster; evil; fatality; misery; misfortune; misère; reverse; squalor; tribulation; trouble
désastre	calamity; catastrophe; disaster	accident; adversity; bad luck; calamity; danger; destitution; disaster; evil; fatality; misery; misfortune; misère; reverse; squalor; tribulation; trouble
misère	calamity; catastrophe; disaster	adversity; bad condition; bad luck; blows; dearth; deficiency; destitution; disaster; disasters; discomforts; famine; grief; hardship; helplessness; hollowness; lack; lankiness; leanness; meagerness; meagreness; miserable condition; misery; misfortune; misfortunes; necessity; need; needyness; parsimony; paucity; penury; poor situation; poorness; poverty; problems; punches; reverse; sadness; scantiness; scarcity; shortage; skinniness; slenderness; sorrow; sparsity; squalor; thinness; tightness; trouble; troubles; want
sinistre	calamity; catastrophe	insurance claim
-	calamity; cataclysm; disaster; tragedy
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
sinistre		abominable; appalling; cheerless; creepy; detestable; dubious; eerie; ghastly; gloomy; grimy; horrible; horrid; ill-fated; joyless; lugubrious; macabre; moody; nasty; obnoxious; obscure; odious; ominous; pensive; problematic; questionable; sad; scary; shady; shifty; sinister; slimy; somber; sombre; spooky; suspect; suspicious; terrible; triste; uncertain; unholy; unreliable; wistful

Related Words for "catastrophe":

catastrophes

Synonyms for "catastrophe":

calamity; disaster; tragedy; cataclysm; misfortune; bad luck
adversity; hardship; hard knocks
geological phenomenon

Related Definitions for "catastrophe":

an event resulting in great loss and misfortune¹
a sudden violent change in the earth's surface¹
a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune¹
- lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system¹

Wiktionary Translations for catastrophe:

catastrophe

noun

any large and disastrous event of great significance
- catastrophe → catastrophe

catastrophe

noun

évènement soudain, qui, bouleverser le cours des choses, amener la destruction, la ruine, la mort.
- catastrophe → catastrophe

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• catastrophe	→ catastrophe; désastre	↔ Katastrophe — ein großes, schweres Unglück, ein Unheil, Verhängnis
• catastrophe	→ catastrophe	↔ catastrofe — een algemene ramp

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University