Words that rhyme with catastrophe

  • anastrophe
    n 1: the reversal of the normal order of words [syn: anastrophe, inversion]
  • antistrophe
    n 1: the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem
  • apostrophe
    n 1: address to an absent or imaginary person 2: the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
  • atrophy
    n 1: a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse [syn: atrophy, wasting, wasting away] 2: any weakening or degeneration (especially through lack of use) [syn: atrophy, withering] v 1: undergo atrophy; "Muscles that are not used will atrophy"
  • dystrophy
    n 1: any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles [syn: muscular dystrophy, dystrophy] 2: any degenerative disorder resulting from inadequate or faulty nutrition
  • hypertrophy
    n 1: abnormal enlargement of a body part or organ v 1: undergo hypertrophy; "muscles can hypertrophy when people take steroids"
  • philosophy
    n 1: a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school [syn: doctrine, philosophy, philosophical system, school of thought, ism] 2: the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics 3: any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation; "self-indulgence was his only philosophy"; "my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"
  • theosophy
    n 1: a system of belief based on mystical insight into the nature of God and the soul
  • salsify
    n 1: edible root of the salsify plant [syn: salsify, oyster plant] 2: Mediterranean biennial herb with long-stemmed heads of purple ray flowers and milky sap and long edible root; naturalized throughout United States [syn: salsify, oyster plant, vegetable oyster, Tragopogon porrifolius] 3: either of two long roots eaten cooked
  • epistrophe
    n 1: repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc. [syn: epiphora, epistrophe]
  • mycotrophy

See also catastrophe definition and catastrophe synonyms