Synonyms for cataclysmic
cat·a·c·lysmic

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1. cataclysmal, cataclysmicadjective

   severely destructive

   "cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a cataclysmic earthquake"

   Synonyms:
   cataclysmal

   Antonyms:
   constructive

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1. List of paraphrases for "cataclysmic":

   catastrophic

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1. Leon Black:

   Clearly what you're seeing in the energy market with the cataclysmic fall in oil prices - halved in such a short period - I think you will have haves and have nots, we along with others in our industry are dusting off (opportunities).

2. Trey Gowdy:

   The potential consequences of us getting it wrong are maybe cataclysmic, we have to be right every time.

3. Catherine Monk:

   Other researchers have seen this pattern of a decrease in male births related to traumatic cataclysmic events, one of them being President Kennedy's assassination and the other being the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City.

4. Thomas Dupree:

   The leak of that draft opinion was just an absolutely terrible, cataclysmic event for the court, i think it was a breach of trust, it was obviously a breach of integrity. And I think it's going to take a long time for the scars from that leak to heal.

5. The Witcher:

   As a lifelong fan of fantasy, I am beyond excited to tell the story' The Witcher : Blood Origin.' A question has been burning in my mind ever since I first read The Witcher books -- What was the Elven world really like before the cataclysmic arrival of the humans ? i've always been fascinated by the rise and fall of civilizations, how science, discovery, and culture flourish right before that fall. How vast swathes of knowledge are lost forever in such a short time, often compounded by colonization and a rewriting of history. Leaving only fragments of a civilization's true story behind.