| Huvudsakliga översättningar |
| disaster n | (catastrophe) | katastrof, olycka s |
| | | naturkatastrof s |
| | Aid flooded into the country following the disaster. |
| catastrophe n | (major disaster) | katastrof s |
| | The oil spill is a catastrophe for wildlife in the bay. |
| debacle n | (disastrous failure, fiasco) (bildlig: fiasko) | katastrof s |
| | | misslyckande s |
| | The ceremony ended up being a debacle because of poor planning and bad luck. |
| calamity n | (disaster) | olycka s |
| | | katastrof s |
| | Weather-related calamities happen in all parts of the world. |
| shambles n | (sth done incompetently) | röra s |
| | (bildlig) | katastrof s |
| | The event was a complete shambles. |
| fiasco n | (disastrous failure) | fiasko s |
| | (bildlig) | katastrof s |
| | (vardagligt) | flopp s |
| | I had high hopes for the plan, but in the end it was a fiasco. |
| clusterfuck n | vulgar, offensive!!, informal, US (disaster, sth mismanaged) (bildlig) | härdsmälta s |
| | | katastrof s |
| | | tragedi s |
| omnishambles n | UK, humorous, informal (disaster, sth mismanaged) (bildlig) | katastrof s |
| | | härdsmälta s |
| | | kris s |
| | The government has turned this situation into an omnishambles. |
| catastrophe n | (fiasco, failure) | katastrof s |
| | | fiasko, misslyckande s |
| | Last time I baked a pie it was a catastrophe. |
| apocalypse n | (disaster, catastrophe) | apokalyps s |
| | | katastrof s |
| | The movie takes place in the aftermath of an apocalypse. |
train wreck,
trainwreck n | mainly US, figurative, informal (thing: disaster, mess) (bildlig) | katastrof s |
| | | soppa |
| | This report is a train wreck and I'll need to completely redo it. |
| disaster n | figurative, informal (person: complete failure) (bildlig) | katastrof s |
| | | misslyckande s |
| | The current mayor is a disaster; none of his projects have run to budget or to schedule! |
train wreck,
trainwreck n | mainly US, figurative, informal (person: with many problems) (kränkande) | nolla s |
| | | dysfunktionell person |
| | (bildlig, kränkande) | katastrof s |
| | My brother was a train wreck all last year. |