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Webster 1913 Edition
Cataclysmic
{ 
Catˊa-clys′mal
,Catˊa-clys′mic
, }Adj.
 Of or pertaining to a cataclysm. 
Definition 2025
cataclysmic
cataclysmic
English
Adjective
cataclysmic (not comparable)
-  Of or pertaining to a cataclysm; causing great destruction or upheaval; catastrophic.
- It is believed that a cataclysmic impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
 -  2005, Edmund White, My Women
- That’s why to be rejected in love was so cataclysmic: one had been judged and found wanting.
 
 
Related terms
- cataclysm
- cataclysmic variable star
Translations
of or pertaining to a cataclysm
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