Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or involving a catastrophe.
- adjective Involving or resulting in substantial, often ruinous medical expense.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of a catastrophe; cataclysmic.
- Relating to or in conformity with the views of the catastrophists; cataclysmal.
- Subversive in a momentous degree of settled usage or law.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a pertaining to a catastrophe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
catastrophe . - adjective
Disastrous ;ruinous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin
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Examples
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However, if these two "perfect storms" happen to be political in nature, the term catastrophic may be a bit over the top, that is, unless the eyes of both storms happen to contain United States Representatives, Senators and the President.
ChronWatch - Articles Neil Braithwaite 2010
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However, if these two "perfect storms" happen to be political in nature, the term catastrophic may be a bit over the top, that is, unless the eyes of both storms happen to contain United States Representatives, Senators and the President.
ChronWatch - Articles Neil Braithwaite 2010
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These sober national security experts don't use the word "catastrophic" lightly.
James Jay Carafano: New York Times Turns Blind Eye to EMP Threat James Jay Carafano 2011
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These sober national security experts don't use the word "catastrophic" lightly.
James Jay Carafano: New York Times Turns Blind Eye to EMP Threat James Jay Carafano 2011
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These sober national security experts don't use the word "catastrophic" lightly.
James Jay Carafano: New York Times Turns Blind Eye to EMP Threat James Jay Carafano 2011
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These sober national security experts don't use the word "catastrophic" lightly.
James Jay Carafano: New York Times Turns Blind Eye to EMP Threat James Jay Carafano 2011
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The Army Corps of Engineers says there has been what it called a catastrophic break at a lock along the Ohio River, the lock helped regulate river levels allowing boats and barges to get around the dams.
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They're saying it could take a couple of days for that to happen, but if the winds don't cooperate, those three fires could merge and then you have what they call a catastrophic wildfire.
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And Visillios Porgaiziz shared this shot from Marco Polo beach, north of Athens, a safe distance from the flames, but close enough to see what he calls the catastrophic nature of the disaster.
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NICOLAS SARKOZY, FRANCE (through translator): An alternative which I call catastrophic, an Iranian bomb or the bombing of Iran.
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