cataclysmic
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From cataclysm + -icCategory:English terms suffixed with -ic#CATACLYSMIC.
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cataclysmic (comparative more cataclysmic, superlative most cataclysmic)Category:English lemmas#CATACLYSMICCategory:English adjectives#CATACLYSMICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CATACLYSMICCategory:Pages with entries#CATACLYSMICCategory:Pages with 1 entry#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.Category:English terms with usage examples#CATACLYSMIC
- 2005, Edmund White, My Women, archived from the original on 4 December 2012:
- That’s why to be rejected in love was so cataclysmic: one had been judged and found wanting.Category:English terms with quotations#CATACLYSMIC
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