Usually means: Causing extreme destruction or distress.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word devastating:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. devastating: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. devastating: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. devastating: Collins English Dictionary
  4. devastating: Vocabulary.com
  5. Devastating, devastating: Wordnik
  6. devastating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. devastating: Wiktionary
  8. devastating: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Devastating, devastating: Dictionary.com
  10. devastating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Devastating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. devastating: Rhymezone
  13. devastating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. devastating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. devastating: Free Dictionary
  16. devastating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. devastating: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. devastating: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. devastating: Encyclopedia

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▸ adjective:  Causing devastation.

Similar:
destructive, annihilative, withering, crushing, disrespectful, annihilating, superdestructive, catastrophic, wide-wasting, catastrophical, more...

Opposite:
uplifting, beneficial, encouraging, fortifying, positive

Types:
nuclear, chemical, biological, electromagnetic, cyber, nuclear cyber, cyber cyber, more...

Phrases:
devastating experience, devastating effects, devastating accident, devastating defeats, opposite of devastating, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     ash gray,     blood red,     stormy gray,     deep purple, more...



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Similar:
destructive, annihilative, withering, crushing, disrespectful, annihilating, superdestructive, catastrophic, wide-wasting, catastrophical, more...

Opposite:
uplifting, beneficial, encouraging, fortifying, positive

Types:
nuclear, chemical, biological, electromagnetic, cyber, nuclear cyber, cyber cyber, more...

Phrases:
devastating experience, devastating effects, devastating accident, devastating defeats, opposite of devastating, extremely devastating, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     ash gray,     blood red,     stormy gray,     deep purple, more...



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