cataclysmic
adjective
of, relating to, or resulting from a cataclysm.
cataclysmal
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a variation of
cataclysmic.
Example Sentences
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Somehow I could not bring myself to think of my relation to him as involving cataclysmal changes.
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
Ten seconds later this cataclysmal lunatic had reverted to sanity—a rather sheepish sanity.
From Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The whole structure of three united, happy lives was built upon these cataclysmal facts--yet she had never asked what thought they held of them!
From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Cornelia A. P. Comer
This tells of the World, its beginning, its convulsions and its ending, and thus embraces the three minor cycles of the cosmogonical, the cataclysmal and the eschatological myths.
From The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion by Daniel Garrison Brinton
This is a change for us from the silence, this cataclysmal music, and it contributes to our walk a different kind of sadness, another form of horror.
From War by Pierre Loti
