What is "cataclysmic"

Usage examples of "cataclysmic".

If we could establish what destroyed that civilization, then we might be in a better position to save ourselves from a similar cataclysmic fate.

Clearly something big and abrupt, and probably cataclysmic, had produced this arresting spike.

She screamed, electrified by the primitive bite, the sudden hard thrust, and everything in her body gathered, concentrating, pushing, clamping down until she broke apart in cataclysmic upheaval.

But into its short life was packed the most cataclysmic series of events that Western civilisation has ever known.

A terrible fear, as disorienting as the flu and as debilitating as a cataclysmic case of the squitters, was enveloping him.

On raced the frail boat, borne on a wave sent forth by the cataclysmic vomiting from the deeps.

What would happen to such a beam on leaving the field on the other side no one was sure, but as a rule attempts to get around the Special Theory of Relativity in the Einsteinian universe had either no results or cataclysmic ones.

Portsmouth OH reports four kilograms of enriched uranium hexafluoride missing and then suffers a cataclysmic fire that forces evacuation of six downwind counties.

The Arachnae nebula had been painted by one cataclysmic, searing stroke from a pallette filled with ruptured atoms and annihilated energy.

Now Nialli Apuilana shows the Queen the armies of the People advancing from east and west and south: not merely the force that Thu-Kimnibol had brought with him from Dawinno, but the warriors of all the Seven Cities of the continent, from Yissou and Thisthissima and Gharb, from Ghajnsielem, from Cignoi, from Bornigrayal, every tribe of every land, all of them united here in one cataclysmic outpouring of joined strength.

Even after this cataclysmic shock, she had vague visions of arrays of dinosaurs waiting in silent rows to trap any mammal unwise enough to poke her snout out of her burrow.

But if the Vigors and the Vagaries clash in combined or even simultaneous use by anyone but you, the result is cataclysmic.

Because your knowledge is fragmentary, you will be forced to try to combine the Vigors and the Vagaries during your attempt, and it will be cataclysmic.

Catastrophists, as you might expect from the name, believed that the Earth was shaped by abrupt cataclysmic events—floods principally, which is why catastrophism and neptunism are often wrongly bundled together.

Scop with his profound grasp of organic and neurological insight sensed that she was on the verge of a cataclysmic cerebral accident.