From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Apocalyptic \A*poc'a*lyp"tic\, Apocalyptical \A*poc'a*lyp"tic*al\, adjective [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.
2. pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling an apocalypse, in senses 3 or 4.
{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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Apocalyptic \A*poc'a*lyp"tic\ ([.a]*p[o^]k'[.a]*l[i^]p"t[i^]k), Apocalyptist \A*poc'a*lyp"tist\, noun The writer of the Apocalypse.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom [syn: {apocalyptical}, {revelatory}]
2: of or relating to an apocalypse
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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