cataclysmal

English

Etymology

cataclysm + -al

Adjective

cataclysmal (comparative more cataclysmal, superlative most cataclysmal)

  1. As noisy or destructive as a cataclysm.
    • 1861, Richard Owen, Palaeontology Or A Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their Geological Relations:
      That they have been exterminated by exceptional cataclysmal changes of the earth's surface has not been proved.
    • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
      Perhaps she’s so deaf that nothing short of a cataclysmal uproar will reach her auditory nerves.

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