Cataclysmic vs Adverse - What's the difference?
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Of or pertaining to a cataclysm; causing great destruction or upheaval; catastrophic.
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Unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction.
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Opposed; contrary; opposing one's interests or desire.
(not comparable) Opposite; confronting.
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Cataclysmic is a related term of adverse.
As adjectives the difference between cataclysmic and adverse
is that cataclysmic is of or pertaining to a cataclysm; causing great destruction or upheaval; catastrophic while adverse is unfavorable; antagonistic in purpose or effect; hostile; actively opposing one's interests or wishes; contrary to one's welfare; acting against; working in an opposing direction.cataclysmic
English
Adjective
(-)- It is believed that a cataclysmic impact caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.
My Women
- That’s why to be rejected in love was so cataclysmic : one had been judged and found wanting.
adverse
English
(wikipedia adverse)Adjective
(er)- adverse criticism
- Happy were it for us all if we bore prosperity as well and wisely as we endure an adverse fortune.
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- adverse circumstances.
- the adverse page
- the adverse party
Google Books
- Calpe's adverse height / must greet my sight