Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apocalyptic \A*poc`a*lyp"tic\, Apocalyptical \A*poc`a*lyp"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?.]
Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a prophetic revelation.
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pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling an apocalypse, in senses 3 or 4.
Apocalyptic number, the number 666, mentioned in
--Rev. xiii. 18., in which it is described as the number of the ``beast of the earth''. It has been variously interpreted. Some fundamentalist Christians consider it to be the number of the Devil, and avoid or fear objects containing that number.
Apocalyptic \A*poc`a*lyp"tic\ ([.a]*p[o^]k`[.a]*l[i^]p"t[i^]k), Apocalyptist \A*poc`a*lyp"tist\, n. The writer of the Apocalypse.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, "pertaining to the 'Revelation of St. John' in the New Testament," from Greek apokalyptikos, from apokalyptein\n(see apocalypse). Meaning "pertaining to the imminent end of the world" evolved by 1880s.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or relating to an apocalypse: 2 # Of or relating to an apocalypse (qualifier: a revelation), revelatory; prophetic. 3 # Of or relating to an apocalypse (qualifier: a disaster). 4 portend a future apocalypse (disaster, devastation(,) or doom). 5 (context nonstandard English) eggcorn of apoplectic. n. One who predicts apocalypse.
WordNet
adj. prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom [syn: apocalyptical, revelatory]
of or relating to an apocalypse
Wikipedia
Apocalyptic is from the word apocalypse, referring to the end of the world.
Apocalyptic may refer to:
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Apocalyptic literature, a genre of religious writing centered on visions of the end of time
- In particular, the Book of Revelation (also called the Apocalypse of John) in the New Testament
- Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, science fiction or horror fiction involving global catastrophic risk
- Apocalypticism, the belief that the end of time is near
- Apocalyptic (album), a 2010 album by the Swedish death metal band Evocation
- "Apocalyptic" (song), a 2015 song by the American hard rock band Halestorm
Apocalyptic is the third studio album by Swedish death metal band Evocation. It was released on 29 October 2010 through Cyclone Empire Records and in North America on 9 November 2010 through Metal Blade Records.
"Apocalyptic" is a song by the American hard rock band Halestorm. It was released on January 12, 2015, as the lead single from the band's third studio album, Into the Wild Life. The video for the song was released on January 28.
Usage examples of "apocalyptic".
Nastasya Filippovna is fated to disappear for much of the last half of the novel, then the author needs an additional cynosure in order to keep his apocalyptic design in plain view.
Like the birthday parties that earlier played a strategic role in the apocalyptic subtext, this festive occasion might be seen as a fresh start, another new page in the story of life.
With this final convergence of money, speed, and iron force, the apocalyptic race, as it were, enters its last leg.
The use of apocalyptic motifs by most of these figures traces to their ties with Freemasonry rather than to medieval Russian tradition.
The tabloid future, with its mechanism of a hopeful twist to apocalyptic events, was perhaps not so very remote from our own immediate experience.
The conjunction of the apocalyptic and the ordinary may be most evident in the character of Murray J.
When these tides reach our own century and become the transforming rage of nations, we may feel the need to consult the source books, the very prose of apocalyptic struggle.
Groups of white supremacists and neo-Nazis have established retreats, compounds, brotherhoods, networks, all linked to homegrown churches that mix apocalyptic reverie with violent anti-Semitism.
Eye Begins to See: The Apocalyptic Temper in the 1980sWilliam Gaddis and Don DeLillo.
Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age.
This aroused the normally mild-mannered and unexcitable technician to the point where he completely forgot leaving the apocalyptic sandwich behind.
Chakans were reputable fighters known for the simplicity of their tactics and sophistication of their equipment, yet a few moments of apocalyptic alien fury had obliterated ships and soldiers as thoroughly as moths in a volcano.
Saddam is not necessarily apocalyptic, but he will do anything to stave off his own overthrow and has absolutely no moral constraints on his actions.
Unlike Adolf Hitler, he does not have an apocalyptic conception of himself or of Iraq.
For her this was no more apocalyptic than a handshake, a peck on the cheek.