Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
catastrophic .
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- adjective rare
Catastrophic .
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Examples
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During this time, the US government, at the behest of big business, repeatedly strong-armed the fledgling worker's rights movement, only budging slightly in the aftermath of catastrophal incidents such as the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, in which 146 low-paid seamstresses burned or leaped to their deaths.
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It will be recalled that one of the most disquieting incidents in America, immediately preceding the catastrophal rising of the oceans, was the melting of the Arctic snows and ice-fields, with consequent inundations in the north.
The Second Deluge 1890
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This begins to look very ugly for Airbus, a company that had a very bad record with software issues, as the catastrophal wiring snafu (fortumately not letal!) at the Superjumbo A380 already did show.
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