The word "cataclysmic" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a moment or event that has major, dramatic, and sudden consequences. For example: The cataclysmic impact of the global pandemic has forever changed the way we live.
This realisation didn't make the event any less cataclysmic.
With government coffers almost at nil and Athens facing a monumental €770m (£560m) loan instalment to the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday, it is the last act in a crisis with potentially cataclysmic effect.
At an age by which I should have had a cataclysmic encounter with an album such as Blood on the Tracks, I'd sought out just one Dylan song, The Man in Me, because I'd heard it used to good effect in a film.
Yet no matter how cataclysmic it now seems, this is really for the best.
Them is a glowering, languid novel of mid-century Detroit which straddles economic extremes as it steams toward a cataclysmic unraveling during the July 1967 uprising.
The miners' strike of 1984-85 is the most cataclysmic event in postwar British history.
With its cataclysmic music, Rite ranks as the most frequently recycled of all the Diaghilev ballets, but close behind is Nijinsky's L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, with its pastoral Greek imagery and dappled Debussy score.
What about social programmes, collective heft and – as the Nobel prize committee pointed out – the advent of peace in a part of the world that had been blighted by cataclysmic war every couple of generations?
It looks as if, after some cataclysmic tectonic tremor, every commercial shed alongside the expressway had piled up in a great collision.
Greater flexibility on the terms of China's prospective admission to the World Trade Organisation might ease some of the domestic Chinese worries about opening the economy to more foreign competition.Of course, all these are strong arguments for avoiding a cataclysmic row with America rather than for provoking one.
In apocalyptic fiction, climate change is steadily replacing nuclear warfare as the doom-monger's cataclysmic threat of choice.We need to "rethink the way we live and rethink our values.
