Catastrophe vs. Catastrophic — What's the Difference?

A great, often sudden calamity.

Of, relating to, or involving a catastrophe.

A complete failure; a fiasco

Relating to a serious illness or injury that results in a long period of incapacity and often high treatment costs.

The concluding action of a drama, especially a classical tragedy, following the climax and containing a resolution of the plot.

Of or pertaining to a catastrophe.

A sudden violent change in the earth's surface; a cataclysm.

Disastrous; ruinous.

Any large and disastrous event of great significance.

From which recovery is impossible.

(insurance) A disaster beyond expectations.

Of a pertaining to a catastrophe.

(narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.

Extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin;

(mathematics) A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.

An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.

The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.

A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes.

An event resulting in great loss and misfortune;

A state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune;

A sudden violent change in the earth's surface