Catastrophic синонимы

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  1. catastrophic, ruinousadjective

    extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin

    «a catastrophic depression»; «catastrophic illness»; «a ruinous course of action»

    Synonyms:
    blasting, ruinous

    Antonyms:
    harmless

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  1. Gabriel Alcívar:

    There are villages that are totally devastated, what happened here in Pedernales is catastrophic.

  2. Gene Hamilton:

    President Biden’s absence from the border on this trip shows us he is committed to failure, to open borders and to a post-Westphalian order that leads to a weakened United States, every nation has the right to protect its borders, and the United States is no different, yet President Biden has presided over a catastrophic collapse of border security unparalleled in modern times.

  3. Meteorologist Ivan Cabrera:

    This will not be a catastrophic storm.

  4. Martin Archer:

    Whilst it probably wouldnt be utterly catastrophic for life, there would be a much higher radiation dosage on the ground without a magnetic field.

  5. Marine Col. Andrew Milburn:

    As a military professional, our duty isn’t simply to follow orders, there is a point where if we see something that is happening catastrophic to the institution, then doesn’t our oath to the Constitution obligate us to take action ? Yet McKenzie didn’t act on a top The Taliban leader’s suggestion the U.S. take responsibility for security over all of Kabul during the evacuation, the four-star general testified during a Sept. 29 House Armed Services Committee hearing. He said he was unsure if that offer was presented to Biden.


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  • disastrous

    help, inauspicious

  • calamitous

    disastrous, deadly

  • ruinous

    disastrous, help

  • fatal

    disastrous, deadly

  • cataclysmic

    disastrous, devastating

  • destructive

    deadly, help

  • tragic

    disastrous, destructive

  • cataclysmal

    help, destructive

  • unlucky

    adverse, inauspicious

  • harmful

  • dire

  • devastating

  • unfortunate

  • fateful

    help

  • detrimental

    inauspicious, adverse

  • terrible

  • ill-fated

    unfortunate

  • adverse

    inauspicious

  • injurious

  • awful

  • dreadful

  • black

  • ill-starred

    unfortunate

  • lethal

    deadly

  • unpropitious

    inauspicious, adverse

  • inauspicious

    adverse

  • damaging

  • woeful

  • grievous

  • miserable

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675 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ kˌatɐstɹˈɒfɪk], [ kˌatɐstɹˈɒfɪk], [ k_ˌa_t_ɐ_s_t_ɹ_ˈɒ_f_ɪ_k]

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  • adj.

    adverse (adjective)

    • distressful,
    • unfavorable,
    • adverse,
    • antipathetic,
    • unfortunate,
    • burdensome,
    • troublesome,
    • opposing,
    • inauspicious,
    • detrimental,
    • perilous,
    • unpropitious,
    • unfriendly,
    • miserable,
    • hard,
    • grievous,
    • untoward,
    • difficult.

    all (adjective)

    • catastrophic.

    calamitous (adjective)

    • more blighting,
    • most blighting,
    • un-fortunate,
    • un-favorable,
    • un favorable,
    • un fortunate.

    cataclysmal (adjective)

    • more catastrophal,
    • most catastrophal,
    • catastrophal.

    costly (adjective)

    • lossmaking,
    • more loss-making,
    • most lossmaking,
    • loss making,
    • sacrificial,
    • more lossmaking,
    • more loss making,
    • most loss-making,
    • most loss making.

    destructive (adjective)

    • devastating,
    • Wreckful,
    • Extirpative,
    • deadly,
    • Lethiferous,
    • venomous,
    • injurious,
    • deleterious,
    • feller,
    • damaging,
    • Eradicative,
    • Wrackful.

    dire (adjective)

    • de-pressing,
    • more scowling,
    • re-doubtable,
    • de pressing,
    • portentous,
    • most oppressing,
    • more oppressing,
    • re doubtable,
    • most scowling.

    disastrous (adjective)

    • un propitious,
    • un-propitious.

    fatal (adjective)

    • in-curable,
    • most mortiferous,
    • most killing,
    • in curable,
    • more mortiferous,
    • more malefic,
    • more killing,
    • in evitable,
    • in-evitable,
    • killing,
    • more pestilent,
    • most malefic.

    fateful (adjective)

    • hellfire.

    harmful (adjective)

    • murderous,
    • Harassing,
    • mischievous.

    hellfire (adjective)

    • fire-and-brimstone.

    ill-fated (adjective)

    • ill fated,
    • illfated.

    ill-fated/ill-starred (adjective)

    • in-auspicious,
    • more ill-omened,
    • most misfortunate,
    • more blighted,
    • mis fortunate,
    • more misfortunate,
    • un happy,
    • ill omened,
    • ill starred,
    • in auspicious,
    • more illomened,
    • un-happy,
    • de stroyed,
    • ill-starred,
    • most blighted,
    • most ill-omened,
    • most illomened,
    • most ill omened,
    • un happier,
    • mis-fortunate,
    • de-stroyed,
    • illstarred,
    • more ill omened,
    • un happiest.

    Other relevant words: (adjective)

    • fateful,
    • misfortunate,
    • loss-making,
    • ill-omened,
    • harmful,
    • unlucky,
    • behind eight ball,
    • dire,
    • disastrous,
    • fatal,
    • tough luck,
    • down on luck,
    • costly,
    • anguished,
    • woeful,
    • hard luck,
    • bad break,
    • Mortiferous,
    • illomened,
    • ill-fated,
    • destructive,
    • calamitous,
    • malefic,
    • out of luck.

    star-crossed (adjective)

    • more jinxed,
    • jinxed,
    • most jinxed,
    • star crossed,
    • starcrossed.

    unlucky (adjective)

    • un lucky,
    • out luck,
    • un successful,
    • un timely,
    • un-luckiest,
    • un timeliest,
    • un-timeliest,
    • un-luckier,
    • un-timely,
    • un timelier,
    • un-lucky,
    • un-timelier,
    • un luckiest,
    • un luckier,
    • un-successful,
    • down luck.

    woeful (adjective)

    • dis-graceful,
    • most agonized,
    • heartsick,
    • Racked,
    • most anguished,
    • dis appointing,
    • more tortured,
    • more grieving,
    • more agonized,
    • dis graceful,
    • more racked,
    • most racked,
    • most grieving,
    • more anguished,
    • in-adequate,
    • in adequate,
    • most tortured,
    • dis-appointing.
  • n.

    • embarrassing,
    • low-grade,
    • terrible,
    • disgraceful,
    • bad,
    • pitiful,
    • help,
    • second-rate,
    • poor.

    • hazardous,
    • risky,
    • dangerous,
    • unsafe.

    Other relevant words: (noun)

    • ruinous,
    • tragic.
  • Other synonyms:

    • cataclysmal,
    • cataclysmic.

    Other relevant words:

    • gloomy,
    • wicked,
    • unseemly,
    • homicidal,
    • dingy,
    • tight,
    • disconcerting,
    • free radical,
    • overwhelming,
    • surd,
    • tearing,
    • poop,
    • extremist,
    • wrecking,
    • agonizing,
    • glowering,
    • mortifying,
    • scandalous,
    • gruelling,
    • mediocre,
    • iniquity,
    • help oneself,
    • backbreaking,
    • incapacitating,
    • black bile,
    • brokenhearted,
    • service,
    • uncomely,
    • stool,
    • tortured,
    • sidesplitting,
    • sick,
    • cuss,
    • severe,
    • despicable,
    • bullshit,
    • shit,
    • defective,
    • speculative,
    • strong,
    • demoralizing,
    • laborious,
    • forbidding,
    • tremendous,
    • ruin,
    • sticky,
    • inglorious,
    • poorly,
    • dreaded,
    • uncollectible,
    • paltry,
    • stem,
    • hostile,
    • minatory,
    • loath,
    • cleanup,
    • crimson,
    • distressed,
    • touch-and-go,
    • doomed,
    • gent,
    • unlikely,
    • facilitate,
    • dreary,
    • shameful,
    • execrable,
    • group,
    • contraband,
    • immense,
    • uncheerful,
    • fella,
    • disconsolate,
    • red,
    • dim,
    • ugly,
    • perturbing,
    • malevolent,
    • lunger,
    • acerb,
    • devilishly,
    • moody,
    • knockout,
    • defecate,
    • root,
    • horrific,
    • flagitious,
    • inadequate,
    • arduous,
    • menacing,
    • lifelessly,
    • inexcusable,
    • razing,
    • crying,
    • lightlessness,
    • kill,
    • taxing,
    • drag through the mud,
    • deathly,
    • regretful,
    • leveling,
    • intemperately,
    • filthy,
    • drear,
    • blue,
    • rank,
    • root word,
    • torturing,
    • putting to death,
    • vitriolic,
    • frightfully,
    • bad luck,
    • reprehensible,
    • heavily,
    • demoralising,
    • badmouth,
    • smuggled,
    • sepulchral,
    • subtle,
    • melanize,
    • spoiled,
    • high-priced,
    • bleak,
    • ill luck,
    • woebegone,
    • turd,
    • dear,
    • grim,
    • grandiloquent,
    • sulfurous,
    • unbecoming,
    • tormented,
    • grave,
    • dogshit,
    • red region,
    • fearsome,
    • terribly,
    • negroid,
    • gross,
    • indecorous,
    • take a shit,
    • blistering,
    • tough,
    • damnatory,
    • blighter,
    • sullen,
    • slimy,
    • trigger-happy,
    • banging,
    • toxicant,
    • toilsome,
    • worrisome,
    • low,
    • opprobrious,
    • onerous,
    • uncongenial,
    • hardly,
    • foul,
    • prejudicial,
    • pestilent,
    • doleful,
    • badly,
    • serious,
    • disabling,
    • annihilating,
    • painful,
    • scummy,
    • unsound,
    • helper,
    • bootleg,
    • unenviable,
    • weeping,
    • chap,
    • pricy,
    • seditious,
    • suffering,
    • lumberjack,
    • silly,
    • pitch blackness,
    • dour,
    • tearing down,
    • loth,
    • unconvincing,
    • atrophy,
    • wild,
    • unmanageable,
    • pitch-dark,
    • measly,
    • minacious,
    • complaint,
    • punishing,
    • implike,
    • shite,
    • torturous,
    • dread,
    • tubercular,
    • arch,
    • direful,
    • pitch-black,
    • awfully,
    • uneconomical,
    • stifling,
    • grotesque,
    • too bad,
    • theme,
    • forged,
    • joseph black,
    • walloping,
    • ridiculous,
    • pixilated,
    • ailment,
    • life-threatening,
    • unfit,
    • intemperate,
    • awe-inspiring,
    • despondent,
    • acerbic,
    • criminal,
    • wholesale,
    • fellow,
    • lad,
    • prejudicious,
    • excruciating,
    • unvoiced,
    • unhopeful,
    • glaring,
    • prankish,
    • blaring,
    • disadvantageous,
    • assistance,
    • contrary,
    • wasting away,
    • pompous,
    • opponent,
    • disconfirming,
    • dark,
    • blackness,
    • total darkness,
    • spoilt,
    • unspeakable,
    • impish,
    • subverter,
    • scurvy,
    • low-down,
    • dolourous,
    • evilness,
    • acrid,
    • negatively charged,
    • smutty,
    • torturesome,
    • caustic,
    • pricey,
    • condemnable,
    • prodigious,
    • supporter,
    • annihilative,
    • base,
    • anarchist,
    • chemical group,
    • dispiriting,
    • laying waste,
    • thumping,
    • indisposed,
    • parlous,
    • blackened,
    • melanise,
    • melancholic,
    • agonising,
    • syndicalist,
    • fearful,
    • amazing,
    • acid,
    • deucedly,
    • electronegative,
    • luckless,
    • insanely,
    • ruination,
    • humongous,
    • bloke,
    • indecent,
    • ominous,
    • drab,
    • unworthy,
    • plaintive,
    • faller,
    • severely,
    • lumberman,
    • unfortunate person,
    • dismaying,
    • vile,
    • worthless,
    • dearly-won,
    • atrocious,
    • take a crap,
    • infelicitous,
    • cachexia,
    • fierce,
    • make,
    • flagrant,
    • massive,
    • misfortune,
    • traduce,
    • firmly,
    • mordant,
    • somber,
    • bitter,
    • insurrectional,
    • sour,
    • assist,
    • devastation,
    • poor people,
    • cachexy,
    • african-american,
    • insecure,
    • frightful,
    • concentrated,
    • incredible,
    • avail,
    • dysphoric,
    • revolutionist,
    • cruddy,
    • antipathetical,
    • negro,
    • desperate,
    • quelling,
    • basal,
    • foreboding,
    • hexed,
    • big,
    • monolithic,
    • blackball,
    • sinister,
    • minus,
    • veto,
    • inimical,
    • sorry,
    • mortal,
    • abominable,
    • horseshit,
    • tearful,
    • suppression,
    • blacken,
    • wickedness,
    • overblown,
    • antagonistic,
    • insidious,
    • threatening,
    • vicious,
    • violent death,
    • dirt,
    • aid,
    • awesome,
    • worrying,
    • ultra,
    • pontifical,
    • awing,
    • puckish,
    • grueling,
    • lurid,
    • voiceless,
    • insurgent,
    • precarious,
    • awed,
    • immorality,
    • madly,
    • saturnine,
    • improbable,
    • heartbroken,
    • sulphurous,
    • troubling,
    • averse,
    • short,
    • serve,
    • black-market,
    • logger,
    • frightening,
    • jejune,
    • bull,
    • assistant,
    • vast,
    • heavy,
    • sombre,
    • ca-ca,
    • badness,
    • rotatory,
    • vehement,
    • glum,
    • ignominious,
    • weighty,
    • high-risk,
    • awkward.

    Other relevant words (noun):

    • heartrending,
    • dismal,
    • wretched,
    • demolitionary,
    • insurrectionary,
    • tumbledown,
    • unhappy,
    • horrifying,
    • Depredatory,
    • lethal,
    • hapless,
    • Revulsive,
    • crap,
    • mournful,
    • dreadful,
    • awful,
    • disasterous,
    • malignant,
    • blasting,
    • monumental,
    • hurtful,
    • virulent,
    • radical,
    • lachrymose,
    • abject,
    • baneful,
    • ravaging,
    • crushing,
    • lamentable,
    • deplorable,
    • Doomful,
    • malign,
    • wasteful,
    • poisonous,
    • nihilistic,
    • whopping,
    • dolorous,
    • Fratricidal,
    • sweeping,
    • appalling,
    • transilient,
    • black,
    • tragical,
    • horrible,
    • ill,
    • violent,
    • regrettable,
    • noxious,
    • egregious,
    • enormous,
    • disturbing,
    • monstrous,
    • shocking,
    • pernicious,
    • huge,
    • saddening,
    • ruining,
    • consumptive,
    • suicidal,
    • demolishing,
    • piteous,
    • pitiable,
    • distressing,
    • sorrowful,
    • revolutionary,
    • Desolating,
    • depressing,
    • pathetic,
    • sad,
    • disheartening,
    • nasty,
    • horrendous,
    • melancholy,
    • negative,
    • unforgivable,
    • funereal,
    • damning,
    • Star-crossed,
    • Vandalic,
    • unfavourable,
    • cheerless,
    • evil,
    • Subversionary,
    • crippling,
    • unbelievable,
    • wasting,
    • Destroying,
    • vandalistic,
    • subversive,
    • baleful,
    • lugubrious,
    • withering,
    • nihilist,
    • harrowing,
    • toxic,
    • internecine,
    • self-destructive,
    • consuming,
    • morose,
    • forlorn,
    • upsetting,
    • heartbreaking.

How to use «Catastrophic» in context?

A catastrophic event is a disaster that has major effects and is therefore considered to be of great significance. Catastrophic events can be physical, such as a natural disaster, or they can be a unforeseen event, such as the financial crisis of 2008.

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  • Equivalence

    • Adjective
      calamitous, disastrous, ruinous.
  • Independent

    • Adjective
      appalling, atrocious, awful, costly, crippling, damaging, desperate, detrimental, dramatic, dreadful, enormous, fatal, harmful, horrendous, horrible, horrific, lethal, onerous, pernicious, serious, severe, sinister, terrible, post-disaster.
  • Other Related

    • Adjective
      abysmal, cataclysmic, deadly, destructive, devastating, dire, drastic, fateful, tragic.

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WORDS RELATED TO CATASTROPHIC

  • adverse
  • afflictive
  • blighting
  • cataclysmic
  • catastrophic
  • deadly
  • deplorable
  • devastating
  • dire
  • fatal
  • grievous
  • harmful
  • heartbreaking
  • lamentable
  • messy
  • pernicious
  • regrettable
  • ruinous
  • unfavorable
  • unfortunate
  • woeful
  • calamitous
  • cataclysmic
  • catastrophal
  • catastrophic
  • devastating
  • disastrous
  • fatal
  • ruinous
  • tragic
  • calamitous
  • cataclysmal
  • catastrophal
  • catastrophic
  • disastrous
  • fatal
  • ruinous
  • tragic
  • catastrophic
  • deleterious
  • disastrous
  • loss-making
  • ruinous
  • sacrificial
  • catastrophic
  • deleterious
  • disastrous
  • loss-making
  • ruinous
  • sacrificial
  • catastrophic
  • deleterious
  • disastrous
  • loss-making
  • ruinous
  • sacrificial

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  • as in disastrous

  • as in disastrous


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catastrophic

adjective

Definition of catastrophicnext

as in disastrous

bringing about ruin or misfortune

a catastrophic tornado destroyed the hamlet’s only house of worship

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  • disastrous

  • fatal

  • unfortunate

  • cataclysmic

  • destructive

  • calamitous

  • ruinous

  • fateful

  • damning

  • apocalyptic

  • apocalyptical

  • cataclysmal

  • damaging

  • adverse

  • detrimental

  • harmful

  • deleterious

  • hapless

  • injurious

  • pernicious

  • luckless

  • evil

  • baneful

  • illfated

  • prejudicial

  • illstarred

  • hurtful

  • noxious

  • baleful

  • ill


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  • fortuitous

  • happy

  • fortunate

  • lucky

  • providential

  • fluky

  • promising

  • flukey

  • optimistic

  • fair

  • golden

  • hopeful

  • bright

  • rosy

  • propitious

  • encouraging

  • auspicious

  • upbeat

  • heartening

  • rosecolored

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  • fortuitous

  • happy

  • fortunate

  • lucky

  • providential

  • fluky

  • promising

  • flukey

  • optimistic

  • fair

  • golden

  • hopeful

  • bright

  • rosy

  • propitious

  • encouraging

  • auspicious

  • upbeat

  • heartening

  • rosecolored

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