Definition of apocalyptic
- apocalyptic events
- apocalyptic warnings
- apocalyptic signs of the coming end-times
- an apocalyptic battle
No one listened to her apocalyptic predictions.
a less apocalyptic view of the future
the apocalyptic destruction of the world
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First Known Use: 1633
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearanticlimactic (also anticlimactical);
inconsequential, indecisive, insignificant, noncritical, trivial, unimportant;
crowning, culminating, high, highest, meridian;
critical, crossover, crucial, fateful, life-and-death (also life-or-death), vital;
cataclysmal (or cataclysmic), earthshaking, epochal, momentous;
: of, relating to, or involving terrible violence and destruction
: of or relating to the end of the world
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