Definition for Devastating:

• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; " a crushing blow"; " a crushing rejection"; " bone- crushing"

Synonyms for Devastating:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • devastating.
  •calamitous (adjective)
  • un-fortunate,
  • un-favorable,
  • un fortunate,
  • un favorable,
  • more blighting,
  • most blighting.
  •cataclysmal (adjective)
  • most catastrophal,
  • catastrophal,
  • more catastrophal.
  •causing devastation (adjective)
  • mortifying.
  •overwhelming (adjective)
  • more eye opening,
  • more overcoming,
  • most shattering,
  • more shattering,
  • most paralyzing,
  • eye opening,
  • most eye-opening,
  • most eye opening,
  • most overcoming,
  • over-coming,
  • more crushing,
  • more eyeopening,
  • over whelming,
  • more eye-opening,
  • mind boggling,
  • mindboggling,
  • ex citing,
  • more paralyzing,
  • over coming,
  • over-whelming,
  • most eyeopening,
  • eyeopening,
  • most crushing.
  •pernicious (adjective)
  • Miasmatic,
  • miasmic,
  • maleficent.
  •sanguinary (adjective)
  • bloody minded.
  •stunning (adjective)
  • first rate,
  • most smashing,
  • more smashing,
  • out of world,
  • out this world,
  • top-pest,
  • firstrate,
  • out world.
  •telling (adjective)
  • more telling,
  • most telling.
  •trenchant (adjective)
  • biting.
  •violent (adjective)
  • in-ordinate,
  • tumultoustumultuous,
  • gale force,
  • tumultous-tumultuous,
  • in tenser,
  • in-tense,
  • in tense,
  • in-tenser,
  • tumultous tumultuous,
  • in-tensest.

• n.

  •
  • appealing,
  • delightful,
  • beguiling,
  • eye-catching,
  • knockout,
  • nice-looking,
  • adorable,
  • lovely.
  •
  • perilous,
  • risky,
  • dangerous,
  • unsafe,
  • hazardous.
  •
  • disgusting,
  • horrific,
  • horrendous,
  • indecent,
  • outrageous,
  • taboo,
  • appalling,
  • scandalous.
  •
  • comfortable,
  • handsome.
  •trenchant (noun)
  • ironic.

• v.

  •destroying (verb)
  • wrecking,
  • Disintegrating,
  • mowing down,
  • Exterminating,
  • dismantling,
  • atomizing,
  • tearing down,
  • Bulldozing,
  • Vaporizing,
  • smashing,
  • razing,
  • Eradicating,
  • Extirpating,
  • leveling,
  • knocking down,
  • Decimating,
  • ripping to shreds,
  • Abolishing,
  • laying waste,
  • Pulverizing,
  • Flattening.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • noncompetitive,
  • hypercompetitive.
  •
  • fierce,
  • convincing,
  • indecisive,
  • hardball.
  •
  • decisive,
  • hotly.
  •
  • competitive,
  • friendly.
  •
  • hot.

Paraphrases for Devastating:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    destructive, ravaging.
  • Proper noun, singular
    destructive.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    damaging, debilitating, destabilizing, overwhelming, fatal, dramatic, shattered, Gutted, harmful, murderous, massive, desolate, disappointing, disheartening, knock-on, far-reaching, subversive, grave, bleak, harrowing, fateful, pest, gruesome, huge, grim, disturbing, heavy, terrific, ill-fated, heinous, sinister, formidable, immense, hideous, profound, alarming, agonizing.
  • Proper noun, singular
    USS.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Derailing, Violating, invading, Disrupting, Engulfing, Jeopardizing, eroding, impair, causing, sabotaging, Harming, undermining, upsetting, Plaguing, ruining, hitting, crushing, Breaching, wrecking, raging, compromising, gripping, debilitating, destabilizing, ravaging, disturbing.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    disastrous, catastrophic, detrimental, ruinous, crippling, terrible, damning, appalling, disruptive, deadly, calamitous, pernicious, staggering, shocking, severe, distressing, horrendous, dire, dreadful, tragic, terrifying, horrifying, horrible, deleterious, serious, horrific, sweeping, adverse, cataclysmic, frightening, daunting, tremendous, awful, lethal, negative, destroyed, frightful, atrocious, abysmal, painful, enormous, drastic, outrageous, vast.
  • Proper noun, singular
    devastated, destroyed, destroyer.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    shattering, damaging, Storming, sweeping.

Antonyms for Devastating:

• adj.

  • causing devastation
    blessed, fortunate.
  • Other antonyms:
    healthy, inoffensive, wholesome, nonlethal, ameliorative, salubrious, healthful, innocent, protective, harmless, formative, nonfatal, preservative, creative, useful, innocuous, nondestructive, helpful, constructive, respectful, productive.

Devastating Sentence Examples:

• It was devastating; it completely crushed all my arguments and left me without a leg to stand on.

• The twenty - five years that followed the date at which this passage was written, were distinguished by more devastating and furious wars on the part of France than had ever been known in the world before.

Homophones for Devastating:

• depicting.