Meaning of CATASTROPHIC
| Pronunciation: | | `katu'strâfik
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| | Definition: | | [adj] extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action" |
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| | Synonyms: | | harmful, ruinous |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cat`a*stroph"ic\, a.
Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. --B. Powell.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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