catastrophic
adj/kætəˈstɹɒfɪk/UK/ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/US/ˌkætəˈstɹɒfɪk/CA/kætəˈstɹɔfɪk/
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καταστροφικός (katastrophikós). By surface analysis, catastrophe + -ic.
- learned borrowing from καταστροφικός
Definitions
Of or pertaining to a catastrophe.
Disastrous
Disastrous; ruinous.
From which recovery is impossible.
- catastrophic failure
The neighborhood
- synonymcatastrophal
- antonymanastrophic
Derived
catastrophically, catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome, catastrophic backtracking, catastrophic failure, catastrophic forgetting, catastrophic interference, catastrophic kill, catastrophic mortality, catastrophic moult, megacatastrophic, noncatastrophic, postcatastrophic, subcatastrophic, supercatastrophic, uncatastrophic
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for catastrophic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA