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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Causing ruin or destruction: calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, destructive, disastrous, fatal, ruinous. See HELP. 2. Governed and decided by or as if by fate: fated. See CERTAIN. 3. Portending future disaster: apocalyptic, apocalyptical, baneful, dire, direful, fire-and-brimstone, grave2, hellfire, ominous, portentous, unlucky. See LUCK, WARN. 4. So critically decisive as to affect the future: fatal, momentous. See DECIDE.
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