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catastrophic

  • adjective
  • /kætəˈstɹɒfɪk/

Of or pertaining to a catastrophe.

Other meanings

  1. disastrous; ruinous.

  2. From which recovery is impossible.

    “catastrophic failure”

Related words

  • supercatastrophic
  • catastrophically
  • catastrophic backtracking
  • catastrophic failure
  • catastrophic forgetting
  • catastrophic interference
  • catastrophic kill
  • catastrophic mortality
  • megacatastrophic
  • noncatastrophic
  • postcatastrophic
  • subcatastrophic

Example sentences

  • “The damage could be catastrophic.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “catastrophic” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.