Dictionary Definition
devastating adj
1 making light of; "afire with annihilating
invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to
compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert [syn:
annihilating,
withering]
2 wreaking or capable of wreaking complete
destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating
hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire" [syn: annihilative, annihilating, withering]
3 physically or spiritually devastating; often
used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection";
"bone-crushing" [syn: crushing]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- causing devastation
Translations
- Finnish: tuhoava
- German: verheerend
Verb
devastating- present participle of devastate
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
acid,
baneful, beaming, bewitching, bitter, blooming, bright, brilliant, calamitous, captivating, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, caustic, consuming, consumptive, dazzling, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, disastrous, divine, doomful, enthralling, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, glamorous, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, heavenly, incisive, internecine, keen, killing, mordant, nihilist, nihilistic, overpowering, penetrating, radiant, ravaging, raving, ravishing, resplendent, ruining, ruinous, sarcastic, sardonic, satirical, savage, self-destructive,
shining, sparkling, spectacular, spellbinding, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, stunning, sublime, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, telling, trenchant, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, virulent, vitriolic, wasteful, wasting, withering