Definition for Devastating:

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

Synonyms for Devastating:

• adj.

  •murderous (adjective)
  • sanguinary,
  • murderous,
  • slaughterous,
  • sanguineous.

• n.

  •
  • dangerous.
  •
  • appalling,
  • horrendous.

• 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:

  •
  • convincing,
  • hardball.
  •
  • competitive,
  • friendly.
  •
  • hot.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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:

• 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.

Homophones for Devastating:

• depicting.