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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. severely destructive;
- Example: "cataclysmic nuclear war"
- Example: "a cataclysmic earthquake"
[syn: cataclysmal, cataclysmic]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cataclysmal \Cat`a*clys"mal\, Cataclysmic \Cat`a*clys"mic\, a. Of or pertaining to a cataclysm. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cataclysmic adj 1: severely destructive; "cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a cataclysmic earthquake" [syn: cataclysmal, cataclysmic]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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