Cataclysmic

3 definitions found

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

  Cataclysmal \Cat`a*clys"mal\, Cataclysmic \Cat`a*clys"mic\, a.
     Of or pertaining to a cataclysm.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  cataclysmic
       adj : severely destructive; "cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a
             cataclysmic earthquake" [syn: {cataclysmal}]

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

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "cataclysmic":
     baneful, black, calamitous, cataclysmal, catastrophic, consuming,
     consumptive, convulsive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary,
     depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating,
     dire, disastrous, doomful, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, grievous,
     herky-jerky, insurrectionary, internecine, jerky, nihilist,
     nihilistic, orgasmic, paroxysmal, radical, ravaging, revolutional,
     revolutionary, revulsionary, revulsive, ruining, ruinous, seismic,
     self-destructive, spasmodic, spastic, subversionary, subversive,
     suicidal, sweeping, tragic, transilient, upheaving, vandalic,
     vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, withering, wreckful