Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a prophetic revelation. [1913 Webster]
pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling an apocalypse, in senses 3 or 4. [1913 Webster]

Apocalyptic number, the number 666, mentioned in Rev. xiii. 18., in which it is described as the number of the “beast of the earth”. It has been variously interpreted. Some fundamentalist Christians consider it to be the number of the Devil, and avoid or fear objects containing that number.

apocalyptic, n.

The writer of the Apocalypse. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

apocalyptic, adj.
1 of or resembling the Apocalypse.
2 revelatory, prophetic.

Derivative

apocalyptically adv.

Etymology

Gk apokaluptikos (as APOCALYPSE)

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THESAURUS

apocalyptic

Biblical, Gospel, Mosaic, New-Testament, Old-Testament, apostolic, augural, auguring, bad, baleful, baneful, betraying, black, bodeful, boding, canonical, dark, dire, direful, disclosing, disclosive, divinatory, doomful, dreary, evangelic, evangelistic, evil, evil-starred, exposing, eye-opening, fateful, fatidic, foreboding, forecasting, foreseeing, foretelling, forewarning, fortunetelling, gloomy, gospel, haruspical, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, inspired, lowering, mantic, menacing, of evil portent, ominous, oracular, portending, portentous, predictional, predictive, predictory, prefigurative, prefiguring, presageful, presaging, presignificative, presignifying, prognostic, prognosticative, prophetic, revealed, revealing, revelational, revelatory, scriptural, showing, sibyllic, sibylline, sinister, somber, talkative, textual, textuary, theopneustic, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward, vaticinal, vaticinatory, weather-wise

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ROGET THESAURUS

apocalyptic

Judeo-Christian Revelation

N Judeo-christian revelation, revelation, inspiration, afflatus, theophany, theopneusty, Word, Word of God, Scripture, the Scriptures, the Bible, Holy Writ, Holy Scriptures, inspired writings, Gospel, Old Testament, Septuagint, Vulgate, Pentateuch, Octateuch, the Law, the Jewish Law, the Prophets, major Prophets, minor Prophets, Hagiographa, Hagiology, Hierographa, Apocrypha, New Testament, Gospels, Evangelists, Acts, Epistles, Apocalypse, Revelations, Talmud, Mishna, Masorah, prophet, evangelist, apostle, disciple, saint, the Fathers, the Apostolical Fathers, Holy Men of old, inspired penmen, scriptural, biblical, sacred, prophetic, evangelical, evangelistic, apostolic, apostolical, inspired, theopneustic, theophneusted, apocalyptic, ecclesiastical, canonical, textuary.

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