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apocalyptically

Syllables: a·poc·a·lyp·tic·allyUK/əˈpɒ.kə.lɪp.tɪkəli/

apocalyptically adverb: in an apocalyptic manner.

Adverb

apocalyptically (not comparable)

  1. In an apocalyptic manner.
  2. In a manner portending future disaster, devastation, and doom.
    • Aerial warfare and the atomic bomb, which he “invented” in The War in the Air (1908) and The World Set Free (1914), have proved as apocalyptically destructive as he prophesied.1834, William Rose Benet, The Reader's Encyclopedia Second Edition, page 1082
    • I hope I appear not to speak too apocalyptically in saying that the problem is still there to minister to our interest and perhaps even a little to our anxiety.1893, Henry James, Essays in London and Elsewhere, Harper & Brothers, page 185

Origin of apocalyptically

From apocalyptic + -ally.

Questions about apocalyptically

What does apocalyptically mean?
Apocalyptically means in an apocalyptic manner.
What part of speech is apocalyptically?
Apocalyptically is an adverb.
How do you pronounce apocalyptically?
Apocalyptically is pronounced /əˈpɒ.kə.lɪp.tɪkəli/ (UK).

Words near apocalyptically in the dictionary

  1. apocalyptic folk
  2. apocalyptic number
  3. apocalyptic numbers
  4. apocalyptica
  5. apocalyptical
  6. apocalyptically
  7. apocalyptician
  8. apocalypticians
  9. apocalypticism
  10. apocalypticisms
  11. apocalypticist

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