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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Fortunately, the approaching explosion, which would have been of a cataclysmal nature,—Stiffy was not a boy to do things by halves,—was averted by a change of demeanour on the part of the temptress.
From A Safety Match by Ian Hay
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
But geologists are becoming more and more loath to call in the cataclysmal to explain any feature of the topography of the land.
From Time and Change by John Burroughs
Some cataclysmal upheaval would seem to account for such disrupture rather than the infinitely slow processes suggested by geological history.
From The Roof of France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
Very rarely is there a spate, an upheaval, and a cataclysmal sweep that bursts the ice and ends its reign in an hour or two.
From Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton
