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apocalyptical

/uh-pok-uh-lip-tik/US // əˌpɒk əˈlɪp tɪk //UK // (əˌpɒkəˈlɪptɪk) //

世界末日,末世,末世性,天启式

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or like an apocalypse; affording a revelation or prophecy.
    • : pertaining to the Apocalypse or biblical book of Revelation.
    • : predicting or presaging imminent disaster and total or universal destruction: the apocalyptic vision of some contemporary writers.

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Examples

  • In one case a pharmacist in Wisconsin managed to sabotage 500 vaccines, apparently driven by his belief in apocalyptic conspiracy theories.

  • We read about people from the past who lived through apocalyptic times.

  • America’s tectonic political plates are shifting ahead of an election that’s being cast in apocalyptic terms by both sides.

  • Elaborating on this “apocalyptic confrontation of South and North,” Cheney observes that “Monroe, Madison, and Jefferson believed that splitting Republicans was the point of the Missouri question.”

  • Concerns over the combination of overstretched and underfunded health systems and the existing load of infectious and non-infectious diseases often led to it being talked about in apocalyptic terms.

  • And it merely delayed the apocalyptic maelstrom that followed rather than preventing it.

  • At DoD he ran around with his hair practically on fire denouncing cuts to the defense budget in out-sized, apocalyptic terms.

  • And I also have lots of apocalyptic dreams, including warfare.

  • Off the coast of Japan stands a crumbling, post-apocalyptic abandoned island that once held a bustling mining community.

  • Failure to reach an accord will add yet more potentially apocalyptic uncertainties to the Middle Eastern scene.

  • It was poetry and the drama, and processions and apocalyptic visions.

  • She flashed before him, an Apocalyptic angel, splended and terrible, trumpet-calling him to the last great fight.

  • Similarly, the apocalyptic myth of world-destruction has passed beyond the stage of the myth proper.

  • In Jewish literature, one of the earliest examples of such apocalyptic accounts of the beyond is to be found in the Book of Enoch.

  • The apocalyptic hope is the end of Old Testament prophecy, but not its height.