calamity vs plague

plague vs calamity

calamity and plague both are nouns.

calamity is not a verb while plague is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
calamity	Yes	No	No	No
plague	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, plague is a hyponym of calamity; that is, plague is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than calamity:

calamity: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
plague: any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)

Other hyponyms of calamity include act of God, force majeure, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty, vis major, apocalypse, famine, kiss of death, meltdown, visitation, tidal wave, tsunami.

calamity (noun)	plague (noun)
an event resulting in great loss and misfortune	an annoyance
	any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
	a swarm of insects that attack plants
	a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
	any epidemic disease with a high death rate

calamity (verb)	plague (verb)
	annoy continually or chronically
	cause to suffer a blight

Difference between calamity and plague

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