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[syn: catastrophic, ruinous]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Catastrophic \Cat`a*stroph"ic\, a.
Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. --B. Powell.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
catastrophic
adj 1: extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin;
"a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a
ruinous course of action" [syn: catastrophic,
ruinous]
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