Synonyms for cataclysmic
cat·a·c·lysmic

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1. cataclysmal, cataclysmicadjective

   severely destructive

   "cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a cataclysmic earthquake"

   Synonyms:
   cataclysmal

   Antonyms:
   constructive

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1. List of paraphrases for "cataclysmic":

   catastrophic

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1. Thomas Dupree:

   The leak of that draft opinion was just an absolutely terrible, cataclysmic event for the court, i think it was a breach of trust, it was obviously a breach of integrity. And I think it's going to take a long time for the scars from that leak to heal.

2. Mitch Ceasar:

   It's going to take some cataclysmic event -- getting hit over the head with a 2-by-4 -- to get them to say,' We have to go out there and protect the bottom of the ballot so we can grow people up,'.

3. Heather Barr:

   It's absolutely cataclysmic, we don't have months or weeks to stem this emergency... we are in the emergency already.

4. The Witcher:

   As a lifelong fan of fantasy, I am beyond excited to tell the story' The Witcher : Blood Origin.' A question has been burning in my mind ever since I first read The Witcher books -- What was the Elven world really like before the cataclysmic arrival of the humans ? i've always been fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations, how science, discovery, and culture flourish right before that fall. How vast swathes of knowledge are lost forever in such a short time, often compounded by colonization and a rewriting of history. Leaving only fragments of a civilization's true story behind.

5. Catherine Monk:

   Other researchers have seen this pattern of a decrease in male births related to traumatic cataclysmic events, one of them being President Kennedy's assassination and the other being the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City.