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apocalyptic

adjective

variants: also apocalyptical

Synonyms and Antonyms of apocalyptic

of, relating to, or being a major turning point

the apocalyptic Battle of Stalingrad, which led to the ultimate defeat of Nazi Germany

Synonyms of apocalyptic

Words Related to apocalyptic

crowning, culminating, high, highest, meridian

critical, crossover, crucial, fateful, life-and-death (also life-or-death), vital

cataclysmal (or cataclysmic), earthshaking, epochal, momentous

deciding, decisive, payoff, pivotal, watershed

Near Antonyms of apocalyptic

anticlimactic (also anticlimactical)

inconsequential, indecisive, insignificant, noncritical, trivial, unimportant

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