'Catastrophic' definitions:
Definition of 'catastrophic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action" [syn: catastrophic, ruinous]
Definition of 'Catastrophic'
From: GCIDE
- Catastrophic \Cat`a*stroph"ic\, a. Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. --B. Powell. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'catastrophic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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