Synonyms for cataclysmal

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kat-uh-kliz-mik

Phonetic Transcription : ˌkæt əˈklɪz mɪk

Définition of cataclysmal

Origin : 1837, from cataclysm + -ic. Related: Cataclysmical (1857); cataclysmically.

adj destructive

Example sentences :

"I'm ———," said Sir John Gotch, meditating some cataclysmal expletive.
Extract from : « The Wonderful Visit » by Herbert George Wells

Lyall in England had shown that geological formations were evolutionary rather than cataclysmal.
Extract from : « Browning and His Century » by Helen Archibald Clarke

It is, in fact, nothing but one cataclysmal bang and shriek of shells and shrapnel.
Extract from : « A Woman's Experience in the Great War » by Louise Mack

Ten seconds later this cataclysmal lunatic had reverted to sanity—a rather sheepish sanity.
Extract from : « The Secret Places of the Heart » by H. G. Wells

Very rarely is there a spate, an upheaval, and a cataclysmal sweep that bursts the ice and ends its reign in an hour or two.
Extract from : « Rolf In The Woods » by Ernest Thompson Seton

So the worship which many render to the unexplained, the fantastic, the cataclysmal—this is the awe that is born of ignorance.
Extract from : « The Story of the Mind » by James Mark Baldwin

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