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Definition of Cataclysmic
1. Adjective. Severely destructive. "A cataclysmic earthquake"
Definition of Cataclysmic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a cataclysm; causing great destruction or upheaval; catastrophic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cataclysmic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cataclysmic
Literary usage of Cataclysmic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Discussions on Climate and Cosmology by James Croll (1889)
"Tendency in Geology to cataclysmic Theories.—The True Theory not cataclysmic.
—An Important Difference. THE most important problem in terrestrial physics, ..."
2. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"VIII cataclysmic adventures—On the trail of dazzling fortunes —"Lovely, but
reprehensible ... cataclysmic ..."
3. God's Puppets by William Allen White (1916)
"When Dick Hale went home that night he found his mother in the midst of one of
her clamorous cataclysmic tantrums; the bank failure seemed to have started ..."
4. Men Versus the Man: A Correspondence Between Robert Rives La Monte by Robert Rives La Monte, Henry Louis Mencken (1910)
"Is not that cataclysmic enough for you? Is it true? I do not know, ... Astronomy has
shown itself equally unable to resist the cataclysmic tendency of the ..."
5. A Clinical history of the medical and surgical diseases of women by Robert Barnes (1878)
"Looking at the terrible suddenness and severity of the blow struck at the vital
powers, I have called these cases " cataclysmic." The most common causes of ..."
6. Bulletin by Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology (1905)
"According to the old cataclysmic idea, this was indeed the case. ... The cataclysmic
theory supposed that periods of uplift or other tectonic movement were ..."
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