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Definitions for cataclysmic
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Princeton's WordNet
cataclysmal, cataclysmicadjective
severely destructive
"cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a cataclysmic earthquake"
Wiktionary
cataclysmicadjective
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.
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cataclysmic
Cataclysmic refers to an event or occurrence causing sudden and dramatic change, often resulting in severe destruction or hardship. This could translate to anything from natural disasters like earthquakes or floods, to major societal or political upheavals. It generally implies a negative impact or disastrous consequence.
Webster Dictionary
Cataclysmicadjective
of or pertaining to a cataclysm
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cataclysmic in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cataclysmic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of cataclysmic in a Sentence
Other researchers have seen this pattern of a decrease in male births related to traumatic cataclysmic events, one of them being President Kennedy's assassination and the other being the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City.
The potential consequences of us getting it wrong are maybe cataclysmic, we have to be right every time.
It's absolutely cataclysmic, we don't have months or weeks to stem this emergency... we are in the emergency already.
The leak of that draft opinion was just an absolutely terrible, cataclysmic event for the court, i think it was a breach of trust, it was obviously a breach of integrity. And I think it's going to take a long time for the scars from that leak to heal.
It's going to take some cataclysmic event -- getting hit over the head with a 2-by-4 -- to get them to say,' We have to go out there and protect the bottom of the ballot so we can grow people up,'.
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- جائحةArabic
- kataklyzmatickéCzech
- katastrofalDanish
- umwälzendGerman
- κατακλυσμικόςGreek
- kataklismaEsperanto
- cataclismoSpanish
- ترسناکPersian
- mullistavaFinnish
- cataclysmiqueFrench
- co-leaystaghManx
- दुर्घटनाHindi
- kataklizmatikusHungarian
- bencana alamIndonesian
- cataclismo, cataclismaItalian
- קטלניHebrew
- 激変するJapanese
- 대격변의Korean
- cataclysmicLatin
- cataclystisch, cataclysmischeDutch
- kataklysmiskNorwegian
- kataklizmPolish
- cataclísmicoPortuguese
- cataclismicRomanian
- катастрофическийRussian
- kataklysmisk, omvälvandeSwedish
- பிரளயTamil
- విప్లవాత్మకTelugu
- เกี่ยวกับแผ่นดินไหวThai
- afetTurkish
- катастрофічнийUkrainian
- cataclysmicUrdu
- cataclysmicVietnamese
- cataclysmicYiddish
- 激Chinese
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