 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
catastrophic
adjective: extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a
catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a
ruinous course of action" [syn: {ruinous}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Catastrophic \Cat'a*stroph"ic\, adjective
Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. --B. Powell.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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