calamity vs famine
famine vs calamitycalamity and famine both are nouns.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| calamity | Yes | No | No | No |
| famine | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
famine is a hyponym of
calamity; that is, famine is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
calamity:
- calamity: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- famine: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
Other hyponyms of calamity include
act of God, force majeure, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty, vis major, apocalypse, kiss of death, meltdown, plague, visitation, tidal wave, tsunami.
| calamity (noun) | famine (noun) |
|---|---|
| an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death |
| an acute insufficiency |
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