Synonym: apocalyptical, revelatory. Similar words: apocalypse, cryptically, cryptic, hypocritical, analytical, analytically, apologetically, skeptical. Meaning: [ə‚pɒkə'lɪptɪk] adj. 1. prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom 2. of or relating to an apocalypse.
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31 Photographers occasionally use it as an apocalyptic backdrop.
32 Also, the apocalyptic and oracular tone provides the spectators with a glimpse of the anxiety and inquietude penetrating current Japanese society.
33 By contrast, its technicolour dealings with China are less apocalyptic, but many times more complex—almost unmanageably so.
34 So,with Ignatius and with the Didache, we have moved a long way from this tiny little band of followers of a Jewish apocalyptic prophet named Jesus of Nazareth.
35 Some may bridle at the apocalyptic scenarios he raises but these often serve a legitimate purpose.
36 In contrast to the apocalyptic visions often associated with climate change, it's the widespread mundanity of climate-linked transformation that the report highlights.
37 ending the race to drink up before closing time has not moderated drinking habits, neither have apocalyptic predictions come to pass.
38 In the midst of a massive drought, two storms—thunder and dust—appeared and painted an apocalyptic portrait over Australia's Lake Eyre.
39 Eight hundred miles south of the North Pole, stalactite-like stratus clouds—churned by 90-mile-an-hour winds—and the light of a bruised dawn paint an apocalyptic portrait over Inglefield Bay.
40 But the consensus around the Gulf Coast is turning more apoplectic and apocalyptic.
41 The apocalyptic blockbuster depicts a world in which global warming triggers a cascade of events that practically flash-freeze the planet.
42 The Witnesses are a millennialist group whose beliefs are based primarily on the apocalyptic sections of the Bible, notably Daniel and the Book of Revelation.
43 Yet the movie's depiction of the fallout from climate change stretches reputable science to apocalyptic proportions.
44 Assume the role of John Connor, leader of the Resistance, in post - apocalyptic 2018 Angeles.
45 One doesn't have to search through ancient texts and soothsayer pronouncements to find more modern apocalyptic visions.
46 An even more apocalyptic bomb was created, the H-bomb, in which US military planners invested their most fervent hopes in the theory of deterrence.
47 Cosmic: What may look like a filmmaker's vision of an apocalyptic world is actually a cigarette paper.
48 "Mia and the Migoo" is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). A tunnel collapse imperiling a parent, flame-thrower violence and apocalyptic devastation.
49 He attempts to explore dismal landscapes , where apocalyptic marches echo and thunder.
50 So can the Hudson River school landscape tradition, Renaissance realism and a prehistory-infused apocalyptic futurism in which humans shape but can't short-circuit the continuum of life.
51 What was most disturbing about Mr. Bush's remarks was their black - and even apocalyptic tone.
52 After decades of decline, the city looked like a set for an apocalyptic movie, especially in the crush of winter, when the sky was a perpetual charcoal gray.
53 Nobody desires to return to chaos without having first experienced an apocalyptic vertigo.
54 But, of course, most of these news rooms were already an apocalyptic mood - and with good reason.
55 Indeed, the latest projections from reputable climate scientists border on the apocalyptic. Why?
56 Hazy, dust - filtered sunlight illuminates a landscape of eerie,[sentence dictionary] post - apocalyptic silence.
57 It is an exciting, well - paced action - thriller with apocalyptic, and adventure story elements.
58 Indeed, the latest projections from reputable climate scientists border on the apocalyptic.
59 The writer's book depicts post - apocalyptic Tokyo, where familiar streets lie deserted.
60 Your characterisation of Confucianism, with its simultaneous apocalyptic and grandiose predictions for China, is barely more than a cartoon.
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