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What is the adjective for catastrophically?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs catastrophise and catastrophize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

catastrophic
  1. Of or pertaining to a catastrophe.
  2. Disastrous; ruinous.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. disastrous, terrible, unfortunate, calamitous, cataclysmic, dreadful, awful, ruinous, devastating, dire, tragic, lamentable, miserable, grievous, woeful, appalling, fatal, destructive, cataclysmal, fateful, direful, damning, black, catastrophal, shattering, harmful, injurious, crippling, deadly, detrimental, adverse, lethal, damaging, bad, unpropitious, deleterious, unlucky, unfavourable, pernicious, unfavorable, dangerous, devastative, wretched, hurtful, baneful, frightful, crushing, deplorable, inauspicious, mortal … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Fire suppression builds up an unnatural accumulation of fuel that creates conflagrations far more implacable and catastrophic than nature's fire.”
      “His goal is to reduce the number of catastrophic injuries to horses on the racetrack.”
      “Thanks for keeping a cool journo's head and reporting on these catastrophic events.”
catastrophist
  1. Of, having, or being a theory that explains a situation by positing one or more catastrophic events, as opposed to gradual changes.
catastrophal
  1. (rare) Catastrophic.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. catastrophic, disastrous, terrible, unfortunate, calamitous, cataclysmic, dreadful, awful, ruinous, devastating, dire, tragic, lamentable, miserable, grievous, woeful, appalling, fatal, destructive, cataclysmal, fateful, direful, damning, black, shattering, crippling, devastative, annihilatory, deadly, crushing, severe, brutal, violent, convulsionary, mortal, grave, earth-shattering, lethal, deleterious, annihilative, savage, untimely, untoward, unfavourable, unlucky, adverse, inopportune, inauspicious, deplorable, regrettable … more
catastrophised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of catastrophise
catastrophising
  1. present participle of catastrophise
catastrophized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of catastrophize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dramatised, dramatized, made a mountain out of a molehill, blew it out of all proportion, made a big thing of it, made a drama out of a crisis, exaggerated, coloured, embellished, embroidered, colored, magnified, hyperbolized, elaborated, padded, overstated, fudged, amplified, inflated, overemphasized, put on, overplayed, expanded, heightened, enhanced, overestimated, stretched, straught, enlarged, varnished, puffed, lied, gilded, gilt, overemphasised, built up, laid it on thick, touched up, elaborated on, dressed up, overdone, overdid, overstressed, emphasized, boosted, falsified, aggrandized, misrepresented, exalted, misreported … more
catastrophizing
  1. present participle of catastrophize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dramatising, dramatizing, making a mountain out of a molehill, blowing it out of all proportion, making a big thing of it, making a drama out of a crisis, exaggerating, colouring, embellishing, embroidering, coloring, magnifying, hyperbolizing, elaborating, overdoing, padding, overstating, fudging, amplifying, inflating, overemphasizing, overplaying, expanding, heightening, enhancing, overestimating, stretching, enlarging, varnishing, puffing, lying, gilding, overemphasising, building up, laying it on thick, touching up, elaborating on, dressing up, blowing up out of all proportion, overdrawing, overstressing, emphasizing, boosting, falsifying, aggrandizing, misrepresenting, exalting, misreporting, bragging, boasting … more
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