catastrophic

3 definitions found

catastrophic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Catastrophic \Cat`a*stroph"ic\, a.
     Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. --B. Powell.
     [1913 Webster]

catastrophic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

catastrophic - 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