- calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm - an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"
--1 is a kind of misfortune, bad luck
--1 has particulars:act of God, force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty; apocalypse; famine; kiss of death; meltdown; plague; visitation - tragedy - drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity
--2 is a kind of drama
Antonyms: comedy
--2 has particulars: tragicomedy