- accident
- accidental
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- an accident waiting to happen idiom
- calamitously
- calamity
- cataclysmic
- cataclysmically
- catastrophe
- disaster area
- disastrous
- disastrously
- dumpster fire
- emergency
- natural disaster
- non-emergency
- perfect storm
- post-accident
- snafu
Meaning of cataclysm in English
cataclysm | Intermediate English
environmental/natural cataclysms
cataclysmic
adjective us
/ˌkæt̬·əˈklɪz·mɪk/
The city has just experienced a cataclysmic flood.
Examples of cataclysm
cataclysm
Both titles take place centuries after a cataclysm, in lush worlds reclaimed by nature.
From The Verge
On and on go the warnings of cataclysm and pending financial doom.
From Business Insider
Of course most deniers know climate cataclysm is happening.
From ThinkProgress
When cataclysm arrives, it's with a mighty thwoop and a sigh.
From Chicago Tribune
Our blue-green living planet has seen cataclysms like us before and has always come back after the threat has subsided.
From National Geographic
Wild birds are the witnesses and ambassadors of the awesome power of nature, surviving global cataclysms and drifting with the continents across the ages.
From National Geographic
Myriad ancient cultures have their own legends of watery cataclysm and salvation.
From TIME
The fact that the marginal rates were what would today be viewed as essentially confiscatory did not cause economic cataclysm -- just the opposite.
From Slate
Yet it is all too easy to forget just how deeply this newfound equality was rooted in the cataclysm of the world wars.
From The Atlantic
He's not alone in this: many writers on distraction present it as an existential cataclysm.
From The New Yorker
Time diffuses the market's volatility and a globally diversified portfolio best protects you against cataclysms anywhere.
From USA TODAY
If the cataclysm can be fixed in time and in space, maybe it helps us wrap our minds around it.
From NPR
The basic, maddening, bottom-line truth is that nothing has really changed as a result of this cataclysm.
From Huffington Post
It was promiscuity in the face of cataclysm.
From NPR
The end of their world did not come in the form of a cataclysm.
From NOLA.com
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Translations of cataclysm
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cataclysme…
felaket, afet…
cataclysme…
pohroma, zkáza, katastrofa…
omvæltning, katastrofe…
bencana…
มหันตภัย…
biến động lớn…
kataklizm…
naturkatastrof, kataklysm, syndaflod…
bencana alam…
verheerende Katastrophe…
voldsom omveltning, syndflod, naturkatastrofe…
катаклізм, катастрофа…
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