cataclysmic

Etymology

From cataclysm + -ic.

adj

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

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