apocalyptic

apocalyptic
    adj 1: prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom [syn:
           {apocalyptic}, {apocalyptical}, {revelatory}]
    2: of or relating to an apocalypse
    

Apocalyptic \A*poc`a*lyp"tic\, Apocalyptical
\A*poc`a*lyp"tic*al\, a. [Gr. ?.]
   1. Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the
      Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a
      prophetic revelation.
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   2. pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling an
      apocalypse, in senses 3 or 4.
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   {Apocalyptic number}, the number 666, mentioned in --Rev.
      xiii. 18., in which it is described as the number of the
      "beast of the earth". It has been variously interpreted.
      Some fundamentalist Christians consider it to be the
      number of the Devil, and avoid or fear objects containing
      that number.
      [1913 Webster +PJC] Apocalyptic
    

Apocalyptic \A*poc`a*lyp"tic\ ([.a]*p[o^]k`[.a]*l[i^]p"t[i^]k),
Apocalyptist \A*poc`a*lyp"tist\, n.
   The writer of the Apocalypse.
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92 Moby Thesaurus words for "apocalyptic":
      Biblical, Gospel, Mosaic, New-Testament, Old-Testament, apostolic,
      augural, auguring, bad, baleful, baneful, betraying, black,
      bodeful, boding, canonical, dark, dire, direful, disclosing,
      disclosive, divinatory, doomful, dreary, evangelic, evangelistic,
      evil, evil-starred, exposing, eye-opening, fateful, fatidic,
      foreboding, forecasting, foreseeing, foretelling, forewarning,
      fortunetelling, gloomy, gospel, haruspical, ill, ill-boding,
      ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, inspired,
      lowering, mantic, menacing, of evil portent, ominous, oracular,
      portending, portentous, predictional, predictive, predictory,
      prefigurative, prefiguring, presageful, presaging,
      presignificative, presignifying, prognostic, prognosticative,
      prophetic, revealed, revealing, revelational, revelatory,
      scriptural, showing, sibyllic, sibylline, sinister, somber,
      talkative, textual, textuary, theopneustic, threatening,
      unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious,
      untoward, vaticinal, vaticinatory, weather-wise