Similar words: catastrophically, catastrophe, eutrophication, astrophysics, astrophysicist, at a stretch, claustrophobic, claustrophobia. Meaning: [‚kætə'strɒfɪk(l)] adj. extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin.
Random good picture Not show
91 A shooting war between Taiwan and China would be catastrophic in human terms.
92 Health care costs also have outstripped inflation; the cost of a catastrophic illness can quickly knock a middle-class household into another, better-defined economic category: poverty.
93 It is also a critical time for warding off potentially catastrophic climate change.
94 The victims identi?ed in these studies as potentially savable were not those who died from catastrophic wounds such as massive injuries to the head or chest.
95 The author's tendentious history of the chemical company glosses over its role in one of the most catastrophic environmental accidents in history.
96 Some who are in good health bet on remaining that way and forgo health insurance or get policies with low premiums and high deductibles , choosing to insure themselves for mostly catastrophic illness.
97 Problems such as corrupt data on the disk, power failures, and system crashes can all cause catastrophic failure of the resizing process.
98 It's not just catastrophic illness that can send consumers deep into debt.
99 That is what makes metal so fascinating, because metallic bonding allows the atoms to glide over one another without resulting in catastrophic failure.
100 For some public risks, two common characteristics are a potential for catastrophic costs, and a low" subjective" probability( lacking a solid actuarial basis) of the catastrophic outcome.
101 Both, older than 50 years, had experienced catastrophic early hip redislocation associated with femoral head pathology after the original surgery.
102 All spacecrafts in low orbit are subject to hypervelocity impacts of meteoroids and space debris, which can in turn lead to its significant damage and catastrophic failure.
103 Mass appearance is usually accompanied by mass disappearance, which may be found near many interperiod boundaries or other boundaries of the Phanerozoic where catastrophic events happened.
104 Two airframe parachutes can be deployed in the event of the vehicle's catastrophic failure.
105 Develop emergency action plans to facilitate efficient patient care in catastrophic situations.
106 There from the eyewitness accounts, it appears there was a sudden and catastrophic failure.
107 Excavation and trace element analysis indicates: Jehol biota experienced mass mortality and rapid burial; toxic gases of the volcanic activities are the main factors of biological catastrophic event.
108 The cumulative consequence for societies of such individual actions is catastrophic.
109 Both are self-reporting, uncorroborated surveys that are subject to"catastrophic errors", according to analysis by a Microsoft research team.
110 One soldier's visor stopped a piece of shrapnel that hit dead centre, " he said. "If he had not had that suit on, the effects could have been catastrophic.
111 Earlier, Greece's minister for international economic relations, Constantine Papadopoulos, said leaving the euro would be "catastrophic" for Greece.
112 Even though the process of beta cell destruction may take three to five years on the average, the onset of the disease usually appears to be sudden and is often catastrophic.
113 Data automatically measured is used to build the evaluating models, including a deterministic model and a reliability model for seepage, and a cusp catastrophic model for slope failure.
114 In order to guard against the impact of catastrophic risk, selecting certain commercial insurance with liability limited becomes a main strategy of the self-insurance funds.
115 President Barack Obama is currently trying to galvanise Congress and the American public to take action to halt catastrophic climate change caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
116 A bank failure of the magnitude of HBOS would have been catastrophic.
117 For this nearly catastrophic rupture, Roosevelt was himself in large measure responsible.
118 Catastrophic damages to the ground structures can be caused by large ground deformation due to seismic liquefaction. Therefore liquefiable ground in earthquake must be improved.
119 Or look at the catastrophic effects of bundling unacceptable real estate risk into something that, to the less data-savvy,[sentencedict.com] appeared to be financially sound mutual funds.
120 Don't submit an S-1 if you don't plan to price. Waiting on file for extended periods of time can be catastrophic.
More similar words: catastrophically, catastrophe, eutrophication, astrophysics, astrophysicist, at a stretch, claustrophobic, claustrophobia, philosophical, trophy, atrophy, sophisticated, anthropomorphic, unsophisticated, astronomy, astrology, astrolabe, astronaut, astronomer, disastrous, fidel castro, metastasis, sophism, graphic, pedophile, philosophy, bibliophile, demographic, biographical, photographic.