Hypertext Webster Gateway: "catastrophic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Catastrophic \Cat`a*stroph"ic\, a.
Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. --B. Powell.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
catastrophic
adj : extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a
catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a
ruinous course of action" [syn: {ruinous}]
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