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   apocalyptic

   /əˌpɒkəˈlɪptɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. describing or prophesying the complete destruction of the world: "the apocalyptic visions of ecologists"
   • ▪ momentous or catastrophic: "the struggle between the two countries is assuming apocalyptic proportions"
   • ▪ of or resembling the biblical Apocalypse: "apocalyptic imagery"

   Word Origin early 17th century (as a noun denoting the writer of the Apocalypse, St John): from Greek apokaluptikos, from apokaluptein ‘uncover’ (see apocalypse).

   Derivatives

   • 1. apocalyptically adverb

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