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apocalyptic
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of APOCALYPTIC
of, relating to, or being a major turning point <the apocalyptic Battle of Stalingrad, which led to the ultimate defeat of Nazi Germany>
Synonyms apocalyptic (also apocalyptical), climacteric
Related Words apical, apogean, crestal, crowning, culminating, high, highest, meridian; critical, crossover, crucial, fateful, life-and-death (also life-or-death), vital; cataclysmal (or cataclysmic), earthshaking, epochal, momentous; deciding, decisive, payoff, pivotal, watershed; go-no-go, make-or-break
Near Antonyms anticlimactic (also anticlimactical); inconsequential, indecisive, insignificant, noncritical, trivial, unimportant
Variants of APOCALYPTIC
apocalyptic also apocalyptical
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