Apocalyptic

Etymology
From ἀποκαλυπτικός:, from ἀποκαλύπτειν:, from ἀπό: + καλύπτειν:.

Adjective

 * Of, or relating to an apocalypse
 * 1) Portending future disaster, devastation and doom
 * 2) Revelatory or prophetic

Noun

 * 1) One who predicts apocalypse.

Derived terms

 * apocalyptical
 * post-apocalyptic

Thesaurus
apostolic; augural; auguring; bad; baleful; baneful; betraying; black; bodeful; boding; canonical; dark; dire; direful; disclosing; disclosive; divinatory; doomful; dreary; evangelic; evangelistic; evil; evil-starred; exposing; eye-opening; fateful; fatidic; foreboding; forecasting; foreseeing; foretelling; forewarning; fortunetelling; gloomy; gospel; haruspical; ill; ill-boding; ill-fated; ill-omened; ill-starred; inauspicious; inspired; lowering; mantic; menacing; of evil portent; ominous; oracular; portending; portentous; predictional; predictive; predictory; prefigurative; prefiguring; presageful; presaging; presignificative; presignifying; prognostic; prognosticative; prophetic; revealed; revealing; revelational; revelatory; scriptural; showing; sibyllic; sibylline; sinister; somber; talkative; textual; textuary; theopneustic; threatening; unfavorable; unfortunate; unlucky; unpromising; unpropitious; untoward; vaticinal; vaticinatory; weather-wise