'Cataclysmic' definitions:
Definition of 'cataclysmic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Severely destructive; "cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a cataclysmic earthquake" [syn: cataclysmal, cataclysmic]
Definition of 'Cataclysmic'
From: GCIDE
- Cataclysmal \Cat`a*clys"mal\, Cataclysmic \Cat`a*clys"mic\, a. Of or pertaining to a cataclysm. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cataclysmic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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