Catastrophic: alternatives and connections

An adjective suffix meaning of or pertaining to, serving for; as in auditory, pertaining to or serving for hearing; prohibitory, amend…

a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events; "he discovered that his house was not insured aga…

Of or pertaining to Aeolia or Aeolis, in Asia Minor, colonized by the Greeks, or to its inhabitants; aeolic; as, the Aeolian dialect.

Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnat…

English; of or pertaining to England or the English nation; especially, pertaining to, or connected with, the established church of En…

Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertaining to the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbar paralys…

An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art.

Of or pertaining to a chariot.

Having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa.

The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.

To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.

That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.

Of or pertaining to the equator; as, equatorial climates; also, pertaining to an equatorial instrument.

Departure; exodus; esp., the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.

a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events; "he discovered that his house was not insured aga…

Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic e…

Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (Chem.), pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as, fulmini…