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catastrophic, ruinousadjective
extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin
«a catastrophic depression»; «catastrophic illness»; «a ruinous course of action»
Synonyms:
blasting, ruinousAntonyms:
harmless
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Gabriel Alcívar:
There are villages that are totally devastated, what happened here in Pedernales is catastrophic.
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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.
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Meteorologist Ivan Cabrera:
This will not be a catastrophic storm.
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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.
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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
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calamitous
disastrous, deadly
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ruinous
disastrous, help
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fatal
disastrous, deadly
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cataclysmic
disastrous, devastating
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destructive
deadly, help
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tragic
disastrous, destructive
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cataclysmal
help, destructive
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unlucky
adverse, inauspicious
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harmful
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dire
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devastating
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unfortunate
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fateful
help
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detrimental
inauspicious, adverse
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terrible
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ill-fated
unfortunate
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adverse
inauspicious
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injurious
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awful
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dreadful
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black
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ill-starred
unfortunate
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lethal
deadly
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unpropitious
inauspicious, adverse
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inauspicious
adverse
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damaging
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woeful
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grievous
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miserable
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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.
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- embarrassing,
- low-grade,
- terrible,
- disgraceful,
- bad,
- pitiful,
- help,
- second-rate,
- poor.
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- hazardous,
- risky,
- dangerous,
- unsafe.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- ruinous,
- tragic.
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- 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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calamitous, disastrous, ruinous.
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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.
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SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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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catastrophic
adjective
Definition of catastrophic
as in disastrous
bringing about ruin or misfortune
a catastrophic tornado destroyed the hamlet’s only house of worship
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fortuitous
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happy
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fortunate
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lucky
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providential
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auspicious
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upbeat
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heartening
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rose—colored
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fortuitous
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happy
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fortunate
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lucky
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providential
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fluky
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promising
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flukey
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optimistic
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fair
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golden
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hopeful
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bright
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rosy
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propitious
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encouraging
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auspicious
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upbeat
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heartening
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rose—colored
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catastrophes
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