Search Result for "apocalyptic":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom;
[syn: apocalyptic, apocalyptical, revelatory]
2. of or relating to an apocalypse;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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. [1913 Webster] 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] ApocalypticThe Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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
