END-TIME Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

end-time

noun

Definition of end-time

as in Armageddon

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Recent Examples of end-time He was raised Presbyterian but exposed to a swirl of end-times ideas. — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026 Here are the start and end-times for each portion of the upcoming free play period. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025 Trump says likewise—and brandishes variations of the QAnon end-time faith to invite his followers to imagine the most gruesome varieties of cosmic comeuppance on offer. — Matthew Avery Sutton, Washington Post, 7 May 2025 Lori and Chad Daybell adopted end-times religious beliefs and claimed they had been called to fulfill a divine mission. — Perry Vandell, AZCentral.com, 4 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for end-time

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Noun

The crime thriller has Gray having helmed a semi-fictionalized return to his family life in mid-1980s Queens and is also a companion piece to his 2022 film Armageddon Time.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 20 May 2026
Good Omens is the story of an angel, Aziraphale (Sheen), and a demon, Crowley (Tennant), who gradually become friends over the millennia and team up to avert Armageddon.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026

Definition of Armageddon

Noun

While his beloved character didn’t outlive the zombie apocalypse, his romance with Pak bloomed.

— Adrianne Reece, InStyle, 28 July 2026
Whitehead plumbed his boyhood fondness for horror movies in Zone One (2011), a zombie apocalypse novel set in a post-9/11 lower Manhattan in the wake of a pandemic.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 July 2026

Definition of apocalypse

Noun

Things get increasingly bleak, as the family dog’s heart medicine runs out and Jason has to put him out of his misery, and then — in doomsday prepper mode — carves up the body and puts it in the freezer just in case food gets dire.

— William Earl, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
The elevator moment is only one of the silent visual callbacks to Season 1 as a way to bid farewell to our favorite doomsday survival bunker underneath Colorado City (jury’s out on the one revealed underneath the Denver Airport).

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of doomsday

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Yoon drew extensively on these themes in his earlier works—most recently in the novel Run Me to Earth and the Story Prize–winning collection The Hive and the Honey—and his oeuvre depicts war’s psychological and material calamities.

— Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
But his avuncular encouragement of Tony in what could be absolute folly brings real heart to this section — until calamity intrudes.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 July 2026

Definition of calamity

Noun

Next week, for the first time ever, Taiwan will deliberately slow its mobile internet speed, testing how citizens would communicate if bandwidth becomes scarce in emergencies ranging ⁠from disasters to a Chinese invasion.

— Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026
There was another near disaster when, two weeks out from the wedding, the couple learned their venue couldn’t accommodate them.

— Jessica Salter, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2026

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