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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin;
- Example: "a catastrophic depression"
- Example: "catastrophic illness"
- Example: "a ruinous course of action"
[syn: catastrophic, ruinous]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Catastrophic \Cat`a*stroph"ic\, a. Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. --B. Powell. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

catastrophic adj 1: extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action" [syn: catastrophic, ruinous]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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