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Calamity vs. Fortune — What's the Difference?

Calamity vs. Fortune — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Calamity and Fortune

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Calamity

An event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster
A hurricane would be a calamity for this low-lying coastal region.

Fortune

The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; luck
He decided to travel, and his fortune turned for the worse.

Calamity

Dire distress resulting from loss or tragedy.

Fortune

Fortunes The turns of luck in the course of one's life.

Calamity

An event resulting in great loss.
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Fortune

Success, especially when at least partially resulting from luck
No matter what they tried, it ended in fortune.

Calamity

The distress that results from some disaster.

Fortune

A person's condition or standing in life determined by material possessions or financial wealth
She pursued her fortune in Rome.

Calamity

Any great misfortune or cause of misery; - generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals.
Strokes of calamity that scathe and scorch the soul.

Fortune

Extensive amounts of material possessions or money; wealth.

Calamity

A state or time of distress or misfortune; misery.
The deliberations of calamity are rarely wise.
Where'er I came I brought calamity.

Fortune

A large sum of money
Spent a fortune on the new car.

Calamity

An event resulting in great loss and misfortune;
The whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity
The earthquake was a disaster

Fortune

Often Fortune A hypothetical, often personified force or power that favorably or unfavorably governs the events of one's life
We believe that Fortune is on our side.

Fortune

Fate; destiny
Told my fortune with tarot cards.

Fortune

A foretelling of one's destiny.

Fortune

(Archaic) To endow with wealth.

Fortune

(Obsolete) To ascribe or give good or bad fortune to.

Fortune

To occur by chance; happen.

Fortune

Destiny, especially favorable.
She read my fortune. Apparently I will have a good love life this week, but I will have a bad week for money.

Fortune

A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.

Fortune

A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.

Fortune

The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.

Fortune

Good luck.
Fortune favors the brave.

Fortune

One's wealth; the amount of money one has, especially if it is vast.
He's amassed a small fortune working in the Middle East.
My vast fortune was a result of inheritance and stock market nous.
Her fortune is estimated at 3 million dollars.

Fortune

A large amount of money.
That car must be worth a fortune! How could you afford it?

Fortune

(transitive)

Fortune

To provide (someone) with a fortune.

Fortune

To tell the fortune of (someone); to presage.

Fortune

To happen, to take place.

Fortune

The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life.
'T is more by fortune, lady, than by merit.
O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle.

Fortune

That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.
You, who men's fortunes in their faces read.

Fortune

That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort.
Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
His father dying, he was driven to seek his fortune.

Fortune

Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.

Fortune

To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.

Fortune

To provide with a fortune.

Fortune

To presage; to tell the fortune of.

Fortune

To fall out; to happen.
It fortuned the same night that a Christian, serving a Turk in the camp, secretely gave the watchmen warning.

Fortune

An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another;
Bad luck caused his downfall
We ran into each other by pure chance

Fortune

A large amount of wealth or prosperity

Fortune

An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome;
It was my good luck to be there
They say luck is a lady
It was as if fortune guided his hand

Fortune

Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);
Whatever my fortune may be
Deserved a better fate
Has a happy lot
The luck of the Irish
A victim of circumstances
Success that was her portion

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