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.
Wiktionary
a. apocalyptic
WordNet
adj. prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom [syn: apocalyptic, revelatory]
Usage examples of "apocalyptical".
From what she could tell, the city beyond the amphitheater rim was engulfed in apocalyptical flames.
Shock Trooper ships would back them up, creating apocalyptical fires to flush the Humans from their dwellings.
Something earnest and strong and humanly hopeful I liked about him, while the other poets were either too dainty in their aestheticism, or too hysterically cynical to hope for anything, or too abstract and indoorsy, or too political, or like Coughlin too incomprehensible to understand (big Coughlin saying things about "unclarified processes" though where Coughlin did say that revelation was a personal thing I noticed the strong Buddhist and idealistic feeling of Japhy, which he'd shared with goodhearted Coughlin in their buddy days at college, as I had shared mine with Alvah in the Eastern scene and with others less apocalyptical and straighter but in no sense more sympathetic and tearful).