Cataclysmic

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) 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.
 * 1) * 2005, Edmund White, My Women
 * That’s why to be rejected in love was so cataclysmic: one had been judged and found wanting.

Related terms

 * cataclysm
 * cataclysmic variable star

Thesaurus
baneful, black, calamitous, cataclysmal, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, convulsive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, dire, disastrous, doomful, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, grievous, herky-jerky, insurrectionary, internecine, jerky, nihilist, nihilistic, orgasmic, paroxysmal, radical, ravaging, revolutional, revolutionary, revulsionary, revulsive, ruining, ruinous, seismic, self-destructive, spasmodic, spastic, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, sweeping, tragic, transilient, upheaving, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, withering, wreckful

Translations

 * Dutch: cataclystisch
 * Italian: cataclismo


 * Manx: co-leaystagh
 * Romanian: cataclismic