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