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apocalyptic

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1. apocalyptic - Noun

2. apocalyptic - Adjective

3. apocalyptic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Alt. of Apocalyptical

Alt. of Apocalyptist

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment. Norman Mailer

It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. Richard Dawkins

If the world did end. Would you be my apocalyptic friend? Ed Harcourt

We take for granted the need to escape the self. Yet the self can also be a refuge. In totalitarian countries the great hunger is for private life. Absorption in the minutiae of an individual existence is the only refuge from the apocalyptic madhouse staged by maniacal saviors of humanity. Eric Hoffer

Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race. Max Brooks

The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world. Adam Schiff

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