Apocalyptic

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Apocalyptic \A*poc`a*lyp"tic\, Apocalyptical
  \A*poc`a*lyp"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?.]
     1. Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the
        Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a
        prophetic revelation.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling an
        apocalypse, in senses 3 or 4.
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     {Apocalyptic number}, the number 666, mentioned in --Rev.
        xiii. 18., in which it is described as the number of the
        "beast of the earth". It has been variously interpreted.
        Some fundamentalist Christians consider it to be the
        number of the Devil, and avoid or fear objects containing
        that number.
        [1913 Webster +PJC] Apocalyptic

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Apocalyptic \A*poc`a*lyp"tic\ ([.a]*p[o^]k`[.a]*l[i^]p"t[i^]k),
  Apocalyptist \A*poc`a*lyp"tist\, n.
     The writer of the Apocalypse.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  apocalyptic
       adj 1: prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom [syn: {apocalyptical},
               {revelatory}]
       2: of or relating to an apocalypse

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  92 Moby Thesaurus words for "apocalyptic":
     Biblical, Gospel, Mosaic, New-Testament, Old-Testament, apostolic,
     augural, auguring, bad, baleful, baneful, betraying, black,
     bodeful, boding, canonical, dark, dire, direful, disclosing,
     disclosive, divinatory, doomful, dreary, evangelic, evangelistic,
     evil, evil-starred, exposing, eye-opening, fateful, fatidic,
     foreboding, forecasting, foreseeing, foretelling, forewarning,
     fortunetelling, gloomy, gospel, haruspical, ill, ill-boding,
     ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, inspired,
     lowering, mantic, menacing, of evil portent, ominous, oracular,
     portending, portentous, predictional, predictive, predictory,
     prefigurative, prefiguring, presageful, presaging,
     presignificative, presignifying, prognostic, prognosticative,
     prophetic, revealed, revealing, revelational, revelatory,
     scriptural, showing, sibyllic, sibylline, sinister, somber,
     talkative, textual, textuary, theopneustic, threatening,
     unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious,
     untoward, vaticinal, vaticinatory, weather-wise