apocalyptic

About 2.13 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or relating to an apocalypse: Revelatory; prophetic. Catastrophic; disastrous.
2. adjective Revelatory; prophetic.
3. adjective Catastrophic; disastrous.
4. adjective Portending a future apocalypse (disaster, devastation, or doom).
5. adjective Catachresis for apoplectic.

   He was apocalyptically furious.

6. noun One who predicts apocalypse.

Similar words

apocalyptical prophetic prophetical revelatory doomful doomsday eschatological end-time world-ending cataclysmic

Often followed by

literature vision and visions writings tradition in eschatology imagery

Word family

apocalyptical apocalyptically