Apocalyptic synonyms

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fire-and-brimstone
Characterized by an impassioned emphasis on damnation and eternal punishment
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baneful
Exceedingly harmful; causing harm, death, ruin.
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evangelic
Evangelical
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prophetic
Of, or relating to a prophecy or a prophet
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prefigure (related)
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doom-laden (related)
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hellfire
Portending future disaster
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ominous
Of or being an omen, especially an evil one.
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doomful
Threatening doom; ominous.
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evil-starred
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predictional
Relating to prediction; prophetic; prognostic.
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luck (related)
Portending future disaster
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oracular
Prophetic, foretelling the future.
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predictive
Useful in predicting.
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revealing
Of clothing: allowing to see more than is usual.
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dire
Dire is defined as something that is urgent.
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fateful
(Archaic) Revealing what is to come; prophetic
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grave
Dignified and solemn or sedate in manner or mien
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portentous
The definition of portentous is having the feeling of evil or foreboding.
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warn (related)
Portending future disaster
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revelatory
Of, relating to, or containing a revelation:
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bodeful
Portentous; ominous.
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disclosive
Relating to disclosure.
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predictory
Serving to predict; predictive.
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revelational
Of or pertaining to revelation
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sibyllic
Of or relating to a sibyl (pagan female oracle or prophetess).
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vaticinatory
Related to vaticination.
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weather-wise
Skilful in forecasting the changes of the weather
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textuary
One who is well versed in Scripture; a textman.
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eschatological (related)
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messianic (related)
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allegory (related)
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allegorical (related)
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eschatology (related)
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iconoclastic (related)
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unlucky
Resulting or likely to result in misfortune; inauspicious:
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Apocalyptic Sentence Examples

  • These books do not display the apocalyptic style which, partly borrowed from Lamennais, characterizes Michelet's later works, but they contain in miniature almost the whole of his curious ethicopolitico-theological creed - a mixture of sentimentalism, communism, and anti-sacerdotalism, supported by the most eccentric arguments, but urged with a great deal of eloquence.

  • Hence we shall not be surprised to find that the two tendencies are fully represented in primitive Christianity, and, still more strange as it may appear, that New Testament apocalyptic found a more ready hearing amid the stress and storm of the 1st century than the prophetic side of Christianity, and that the type of the forerunner on the side of its declared asceticism appealed more readily to primitive Christianity than that of Him who came "eating and drinking," declaring both worlds good and both God's.

  • It was Christianity that preserved Jewish apocalyptic, when it was abandoned by Judaism as it sank into Rabbinism, and gave it a Christian character either by a forcible exegesis or by a systematic process of interpolation.

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