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devastating - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | devastating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | causing devastation |
| Synonyms: | calamitous, destructive, disastrous, overwhelming, annihilating, desolating, mortifying |
| Main Entry: | devastating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | trenchant |
| Synonyms: | biting, caustic, incisive, crushing |
| Main Entry: | devastate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demolish, destroy |
| Synonyms: | desecrate, desolate, despoil, devour, level, pillage, plunder, raid, ravage, raze, ruin, sack, smash, spoil, stamp out*, total*, trash*, waste, wreck, depredate, do one in, lay waste, spoliate, take apart, wipe off map |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, enrich, help, improve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | calamitous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disastrous; tragic |
| Synonyms: | adverse, deadly, deplorable, devastating, dire, fatal, grievous, harmful, heartbreaking, lamentable, messy, pernicious, regrettable, ruinous, unfavorable, unfortunate, woeful, afflictive, blighting, cataclysmic, catastrophic |
| Antonyms: | blessed, comforting, favorable, fortunate, happy, joyous, wonderful |
| Main Entry: | lethal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadly |
| Synonyms: | baleful, dangerous, deathly, destructive, devastating, fatal, harmful, hurtful, malignant, mortal, mortuary, murderous, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, poisonous, virulent, mortiferous, necrotic, pestilential |
| Notes: | use fatal for something which has caused someone's death; use lethal for something which is capable of killing someone |
| Antonyms: | beneficial, harmless, helpful, life-giving |
| Main Entry: | murderous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult |
| Synonyms: | arduous, brutal, criminal, cruel, dangerous, deadly, destroying, destructive, devastating, fell, ferocious, harrowing, hellish, killing, lethal, ruinous, savage, strenuous, unpleasant, exhausting, sapping |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | overwhelming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overpowering |
| Synonyms: | amazing, astounding, breathtaking, devastating, exciting, mind-boggling, staggering, stunning, vast, crushing, eye-opening, overcoming, paralyzing, shattering |
| Main Entry: | pernicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, hurtful |
| Synonyms: | baleful, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, devastating, evil, fatal, harmful, iniquitous, injurious, killing, lethal, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mortal, nefarious, noisome, noxious, offensive, pestiferous, pestilent, poisonous, prejudicial, ruinous, sinister, toxic, venomous, virulent, wicked, maleficent, miasmatic, miasmic, pestilential |
| Antonyms: | helpful, innocuous, kind, lovable, loving |
| Main Entry: | stunning |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful, marvelous |
| Synonyms: | bonny, brilliant, comely, dazzling, devastating, excellent, fair, famous, fine, first-class*, first-rate*, gorgeous, great, handsome, heavenly, impressive, lovely, number one, out of this world, pretty, ravishing, remarkable, royal, sensational, spectacular, striking, superior, top, wonderful, beauteous, smashing |
| Antonyms: | homely, ugly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | telling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effective, significant |
| Synonyms: | cogent, considerable, conspicuous, convincing, crucial, decisive, devastating, effectual, forceful, forcible, important, impressive, influential, marked, operative, potent, powerful, satisfactory, satisfying, solid, sound, striking, trenchant, valid, weighty |
| Antonyms: | ineffective, insignificant, secondary, unimportant |
| Main Entry: | consumptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | destructive |
| Synonyms: | devastating, harmful, immoderate, wasteful |
| Main Entry: | violent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | severe, extreme |
| Synonyms: | acute, agonizing, biting, blustery, concentrated, devastating, excruciating, exquisite, forceful, forcible, great, harsh, immoderate, inordinate, intense, mighty, outrageous, painful, potent, powerful, raging, rough, ruinous, sharp, strong, tempestuous, terrible, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, wild, coercive, gale force |
| Antonyms: | calm, gentle, mild, moderate |
| Main Entry: | consume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, crush, decay, demolish, devastate, eat up, exhaust, expend, extinguish, overwhelm, ravage, raze, ruin, suppress, waste, wreck, lay waste |
| Antonyms: | build, construct |
| Main Entry: | demolish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy; consume |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, break, bulldoze, burst, crack, crush, decimate, defeat, devastate, devour, dismantle, eat, flatten, level, obliterate, overthrow, overturn, pulverize, put away, raze, ruin, sink, smash, tear down, total*, trash*, undo, wax*, wrack, wreck, dilapidate, gobble up, knock down, put in toilet, take apart, take out, torpedo*, wipe off map |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, fix, produce, rebuild, repair, restore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | desecrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abuse, violate |
| Synonyms: | befoul, blaspheme, contaminate, defile, desolate, despoil, devastate, devour, dishonor, mess up*, pervert, pillage, pollute, profane, prostitute, ravage, sack*, spoil, waste, commit sacrilege, depredate, make lose face, spoliate |
| Antonyms: | honor, praise, sanctify |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | desolate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravage, destroy |
| Synonyms: | desecrate, despoil, devastate, devour, pillage, plunder, ruin, sack, waste, depopulate, depredate, lay low, lay waste, spoliate |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, improve |
| Main Entry: | despoil |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravage, destroy |
| Synonyms: | denude, deprive, desecrate, desolate, devastate, devour, dispossess, divest, loot, maraud, pillage, plunder, raid, rifle, rob, sack, spoil, strip, vandalize, waste, wreak havoc, wreck, depopulate, depredate, spoliate |
| Antonyms: | build, construct, improve |
| Main Entry: | harry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pester, annoy |
| Synonyms: | attack, badger, bedevil, beleaguer, devastate, disturb, fret, gnaw, harass, hassle, irk, irritate, molest, persecute, perturb, pillage, plague, plunder, ravage, sack, tease, torment, trouble, upset, vex, worry, chivy, depredate, lay waste |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help, support |
| Main Entry: | level |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy, demolish |
| Synonyms: | bring down, bulldoze*, devastate, down*, drop, equalize, fell, flatten, floor, ground, mow*, pull down, raze, ruin, smooth, tear down, waste*, wreck, knock down, knock over, lay low |
| Antonyms: | build, construct |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pillage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plunder, destroy |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, arrogate, confiscate, desecrate, desolate, despoil, devastate, devour, gut, invade, lift*, loot, maraud, nab*, pilfer, pinch*, purloin, raid, ransack, ravage, rifle*, rob, ruin, sack, spoil, steal, strip, thieve, trespass, waste, depredate, lay waste, spoliate |
| Antonyms: | protect, safeguard |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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