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Dramatic vs Apocalypse - What's the difference?

dramatic | apocalypse |

As an adjective dramatic

is dramatic.

As a proper noun apocalypse is

(countable|biblical) the written account of a revelation of hidden things given by god to a chosen prophet.

dramatic

English

Alternative forms

* dramatick

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the drama.
  • *
  • Striking in appearance or effect.
  • *
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-17, volume=408, issue=8849, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Best and brightest , passage=Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade. Before 2000 half of the country’s rural adults had finished only primary school. Yet international rankings now put the country’s students well ahead of America’s in science and maths (the strongest predictor of future earnings), even as the country spends far less per pupil. }}
  • Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.

    • Derived terms

    * nondramatic

    apocalypse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A revelation.
    • The early development of Perl 6 was punctuated by a series of apocalypses by Larry Wall.
  • (Christianity) The unveiling of events prophesied in the ; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction.
  • A disaster; a cataclysmic event.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 699:
    • The Spanish mission in America soon became not so much crusade as apocalypse .

    Synonyms

    * armageddon * doomsday * judgement day * nuclear holocaust * Ragnarok (Ragnarök) * Final Judgment * end times * eschaton

    Derived terms

    * apocalyptic * apocalypticism * snowpocalypse