Apocalyptic Synonyms

ə-pŏkə-lĭptĭk
Portending future disaster
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. apocalyptical
  2. fateful
  3. ominous
  4. baneful
  5. prophetic
  6. dire
  7. direful
  8. fire-and-brimstone
  9. grave
  10. oracular
  11. hellfire
  12. predictive
  13. portentous
  14. unlucky
  15. bodeful
  16. disclosive
  17. revealing
  18. doomful
  19. evangelic
  20. evil-starred
  21. revelatory
  22. predictional
  23. predictory
  24. revelational
  25. sibyllic
  26. vaticinatory
  27. weather-wise

Words Related to Apocalyptic

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Apocalyptic Sentence Examples

  • Again 1666 was given as the apocalyptic year.

  • The style is very vigorous and the materials of a strongly apocalyptic character.

  • 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.

  • But the unity of thought and atmosphere is such as to show that the work is one whole (subject no doubt to a certain amount of redaction and interpolation), and that the apocalyptic part was composed as an introduction to the rest.

  • 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.

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