catastrophic

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cat·a·stroph·ic

(kăt′ə-strŏf′ĭk)

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or involving a catastrophe.

2. Relating to a serious illness or injury that results in a long period of incapacity and often high treatment costs.

cat′a·stroph′i·cal·ly adv.

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Adj.

catastrophic - extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"

ruinous

harmful - causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"

catastrophic

adjective disastrous, devastating, tragic, calamitous, cataclysmic A tidal wave caused catastrophic damage.

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catastrophic

adjective

Causing ruin or destruction:

calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, destructive, disastrous, fatal, fateful, ruinous.

Translations

كارِثي، مُسَبِّبٌ للفَواجِع

katastrofálníkatastrofický

katastrofal

katastrophal

ολέθριος

hukatuslik

catastrophique

katasztrofális

stórslysalegur; ógæfu-

catastrofico

felâkete neden olankorkunç

大灾难的

catastrophic

[ˌkætəˈstrɒfɪk] ADJ → catastrófico

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catastrophic

[ˌkætəˈstrɒfɪk] adj → catastrophique

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catastrophic

adj → katastrophal; event, decision, course also → verhängnisvoll

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catastrophic

[ˌkætəˈstrɒfɪk] adj → catastrofico/a

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catastrophe

(kəˈtӕstrəfi) noun

a sudden great disaster. earthquakes and other natural catastrophes; Her brother's death was a catastrophe for the family.

catastrophic (kӕtəˈstrofik) adjective

ˌcataˈstrophically adverb

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Some cling to you in woebegone misery; others come back fiercely and weirdly, like ghouls bent upon sucking your strength away; others, again, have a catastrophic splendour; some are unvenerated recollections, as of spiteful wild-cats clawing at your agonized vitals; others are severe, like a visitation; and one or two rise up draped and mysterious, with an aspect of ominous menace.

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Most catastrophic of all, however, was the fact that Dag Daughtry was three quarts short of his daily allowance and did not dare break into the rent money which was all that stood between him and his family and the street.

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He knew the prod of impulse to join in this rush away from some unthinkably catastrophic event that impended and that stirred his intuitive apprehensions of death.

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By the paradox already noted, articles of valuable intelligence and enthusiasm were presented with headlines apparently written by an illiterate maniac, headlines such as "Darwin Chews Dirt; Critic Boulnois says He Jumps the Shocks"--or "Keep Catastrophic, says Thinker Boulnois." And Mr Calhoun Kidd, of the Western Sun, was bidden to take his butterfly tie and lugubrious visage down to the little house outside Oxford where Thinker Boulnois lived in happy ignorance of such a title.

"I won't keep you long from `The Bloody Thumb' or any other catastrophic affairs," said Father Brown, smiling.

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And from this paper my brother read that catastrophic despatch of the Commander-in-Chief:

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There was nothing stable in the anarchic flux of affairs that swept her on she knew not to what catastrophic end.

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Mr Verloc had never expected to have to face it on account of death, whose catastrophic character cannot be argued away by sophisticated reasoning or persuasive eloquence.

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Had he been informed by an indisputable authority that the end of the world was to be finally accomplished by a catastrophic disturbance of the atmosphere, he would have assimilated the information under the simple idea of dirty weather, and no other, because he had no experience of cataclysms, and belief does not necessarily imply comprehension.

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A minority of patients with the antiphospholipid syndrome present with an acute and devastating syndrome termed "catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome" characterized by multiple simultaneous vascular occlusions throughout the body.

Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome in leprosy

Catastrophic relief payments will be made solely to Illinois hospitals that are not publicly owned or operated and are not part of a multiple hospital network.