Usually means: Disastrous, causing sudden extensive damage.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. catastrophic: Merriam-Webster
  2. catastrophic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catastrophic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catastrophic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. catastrophic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Catastrophic, catastrophic: Wordnik
  7. catastrophic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. catastrophic: Wiktionary
  9. catastrophic: Dictionary.com
  10. catastrophic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Catastrophic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Catastrophic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. catastrophic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. catastrophic: Rhymezone
  15. Catastrophic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. catastrophic: FreeDictionary.org
  17. catastrophic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. catastrophic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. catastrophic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. catastrophic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catastrophic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catastrophic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catastrophic: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or pertaining to a catastrophe.
adjective:  Disastrous; ruinous.
adjective:  From which recovery is impossible.

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