Catastrophic

3 definitions found

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

  Catastrophic \Cat`a*stroph"ic\, a.
     Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. --B. Powell.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  catastrophic
       adj : extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a
             catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a
             ruinous course of action" [syn: {ruinous}]

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

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