cataclysmic
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cataclysmic (comparative more cataclysmic, superlative most cataclysmic)
- 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[1]:
- That’s why to be rejected in love was so cataclysmic: one had been judged and found wanting.
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of or pertaining to a cataclysm
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