Explore Catastrophic through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like ruinous or harmful. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Catastrophic meaning
- Of or pertaining to a catastrophe.
- Disastrous; ruinous.
- From which recovery is impossible.
Using Catastrophic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to a catastrophe. | Disastrous; ruinous. | From which recovery is impossible.
- Useful related words include: ruinous, harmful.
- In the example corpus, catastrophic often appears in combinations such as: the catastrophic, be catastrophic, of catastrophic.
Context around Catastrophic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 10 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Catastrophic
- In this selection, "catastrophic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, details, outcome, landslide and complications stand out and add context to how "catastrophic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include all the catastrophic weather primarily and and more catastrophic across the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "catastrophic" sits close to words such as beverage, jupiter and kyiv, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with catastrophic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
By all accounts, Prohibition was a catastrophic policy failure. (9 words)
Apart from their homes and livelihoods there is catastrophic environmental damage. (11 words)
A spokesperson said the crew members were victims of a “catastrophic implosion”. (12 words)
And remember that sequestration — assuming the CO2 remains in the ground — when used as an offset, as the CCA proposes, simply maintains the atmospheric carbon status quo, which is already leading to catastrophic global heating. (35 words)
A deep-sea diving trip at one of the world's most remote spots becomes a fight for survival for sisters Drew and May when a catastrophic landslide sends rocks tumbling into the sea. (34 words)
Although any one of them could easily step in to put a stop to their brother's machinations, doing so would likely be just as catastrophic as what the Rat King has planned. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
A court heard Mark Hubble was lucky there wasn't "a catastrophic outcome".
A deep-sea diving trip at one of the world's most remote spots becomes a fight for survival for sisters Drew and May when a catastrophic landslide sends rocks tumbling into the sea.
AFE, as it's sometimes referred to, is considered "one of the most catastrophic complications of according to the National Institutes of Health.
Although any one of them could easily step in to put a stop to their brother's machinations, doing so would likely be just as catastrophic as what the Rat King has planned.
A man has admitted to being a person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control which caused life-changing and catastrophic injuries to his next door neighbour.
And Hawaii Gov. Josh Green warns it could be “catastrophic” if tourism on the island came to a halt right now.
And now in the fourth quarter we had mentioned $7 million from Winter Storm Ell – from all the catastrophic weather, primarily Winter Storm Elliott in Q4.
And remember that sequestration — assuming the CO2 remains in the ground — when used as an offset, as the CCA proposes, simply maintains the atmospheric carbon status quo, which is already leading to catastrophic global heating.
And so we shut it down, it was quite catastrophic,” the Twitter CEO said.
A one-punch attack left the 27-year-old with a catastrophic brain injury in September 2021.
Apart from their homes and livelihoods there is catastrophic environmental damage.
As Morocco grapples with the aftermath of this rare and catastrophic earthquake, the world watches with empathy and solidarity.
A spokesperson said the crew members were victims of a “catastrophic implosion”.
As the catastrophic inferno tore through a factory in Tyseley, thick black smoke could be seen for miles across the city skyline.
As wildfires become larger and more catastrophic across the drying West, water leaders warn communities must prepare for the eventual impact on the critical watersheds that provide the water flowing from Colorado taps.
Butler stars as an ex-military pilot who suffers a catastrophic crash with a cabin full of passengers.
By all accounts, Prohibition was a catastrophic policy failure.
By remaining, I would be an accomplice to a catastrophic course for the country,” Attalidou said.
Chilling videos depict Titanic sub implosion as footage details catastrophic event Terrifying videos have surfaced on social media showing animations of what the Titan implosion would have looked like thousands of meters underwater.
Chinese Communist social engineers committed a catastrophic error that one of the most ancient countries in the world may not recover from.
Common combinations with catastrophic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the catastrophic 21×
- be catastrophic 13×
- of catastrophic 12×
- catastrophic consequences 11×
- catastrophic injuries 10×
- with catastrophic 10×
- to catastrophic 8×
- have catastrophic 8×
- catastrophic for 7×
- potentially catastrophic 7×