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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin;
- Example: "a catastrophic depression"
- Example: "catastrophic illness"
- Example: "a ruinous course of action"
[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]