What is another word for devastating?
262 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ d_ˈɛ_v_ə_s_t_ˌeɪ_t_ɪ_ŋ], [ dˈɛvəstˌe͡ɪtɪŋ], [ dˈɛvəstˌeɪtɪŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for devastating:- all (adjective)
- calamitous (adjective)
- cataclysmal (adjective)
- causing devastation (adjective)
- lethal (adjective)
- murderous (adjective)
- overwhelming (adjective)
- pernicious (adjective)
- sanguinary (adjective)
- stunning (adjective)
- telling (adjective)
- trenchant (adjective)
- violent (adjective)
- trenchant (noun)
- destroying (verb)
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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) •calamitous (adjective) •cataclysmal (adjective) •causing devastation (adjective) •lethal (adjective) •murderous (adjective) •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.
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- comfortable,
- handsome.
v.
•destroying (verb)Other synonyms:
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- noncompetitive,
- hypercompetitive.
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- fierce,
- convincing,
- indecisive,
- hardball.
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- competitive,
- friendly.
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- hot.
- dreadful,
- tough,
- crumple,
- Deletory,
- crush,
- havoc,
- mayhem,
- check,
- damage,
- Desecrating,
- inundate,
- unpleasant,
- conjuror,
- harsh,
- desolation,
- major,
- Derailing,
- sacking,
- suppress,
- overtake,
- exorbitant,
- incendiary,
- demolition,
- destroy,
- kill,
- devastative,
- racking,
- distressful,
- stifle,
- difficult,
- fell,
- shattering,
- overpower,
- Despoiling,
- tiring,
- terrible,
- excessive,
- thumping,
- horrible,
- extinguish,
- destroyer,
- wizardry,
- Depopulating,
- necromancer,
- awful,
- plundering,
- vanquish,
- unwholesome,
- rotting,
- waste,
- uncontrollable,
- deluge,
- malignant,
- hard,
- peruke,
- huge,
- severe,
- wreckage,
- subdue,
- magician,
- mischievous,
- considerable,
- arduous,
- Emaciating,
- devastation,
- quell,
- Levelling,
- drown,
- excruciating,
- beat,
- enervating,
- pillaging,
- enormous,
- Abandoning,
- bad,
- vandal,
- curb,
- unbearable,
- draconian,
- Whelming,
- punishing,
- overcome,
- grim,
- oppressive,
- enchanter,
- exhausting,
- rough,
- stringent,
- conquer,
- tremendous,
- opener,
- bloodthirsty,
- Macerating,
- daunting,
- dark,
- submerge,
- death-dealing,
- cruel,
- Waring,
- Annihilatory,
- smother,
- irresistible,
- Harrying,
- repress,
- dire,
- sorcerer,
- choke,
- grievous,
- genius,
- debacle,
- Languishing,
- barbarous,
- austere,
- suffocate,
- wig,
- conjurer,
- burdensome,
- deathly,
- drastic,
- wizard,
- inhuman,
- noxious,
- destruction,
- mortal,
- blasting,
- unendurable,
- debilitating,
- Deserting,
- bloody,
- formidable,
- quash,
- Liquidating,
- Fatiguing,
- brutal,
- immense,
- drench,
- restrain,
- swingeing,
- overwhelm.
Paraphrases for Devastating:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
destructive, ravaging.
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Proper noun, singular
destructive.
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Adjective
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Independent
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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.
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Proper noun, singular
USS.
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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.
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Other Related
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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.
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Proper noun, singular
devastated, destroyed, destroyer.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
shattering, damaging, Storming, sweeping.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Devastating:
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Other antonyms:
healthy, inoffensive, wholesome, nonlethal, ameliorative, salubrious, healthful, innocent, protective, harmless, formative, nonfatal, preservative, creative, useful, innocuous, nondestructive, helpful, constructive, respectful, productive.
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Devastating Sentence Examples:
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It was devastating; it completely crushed all my arguments and left me without a leg to stand on.
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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.
