apocalyptic
Speech parts
1. apocalyptic - Noun
2. apocalyptic - Adjective
3. apocalyptic - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Alt. of Apocalyptical
Alt. of Apocalyptist
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Examples
Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.
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.
If the world did end. Would you be my apocalyptic friend?
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.
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.
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.