cataclysmal

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adjective

As noisy or destructive as a cataclysm.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectivecataclysmal (comparative more cataclysmal, superlative most cataclysmal)

comparative more cataclysmal · superlative most cataclysmal

  1. As noisy or destructive as a cataclysm.

    Perhaps she’s so deaf that nothing short of a cataclysmal uproar will reach her auditory nerves.

    1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
    1 more example

    That they have been exterminated by exceptional cataclysmal changes of the earth's surface has not been proved.

    1861, Richard Owen, Palaeontology Or A Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their Geological Relations

    Synonyms: cataclysmic

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveAs noisy or destructive as a cataclysm.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveseverely destructive

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Spanish cataclismal
  • cataclismalas noisy or destructive as a cataclysm
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Chicago

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