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devastating
OXFORD DICTIONARY
devastating, adj. crushingly effective; overwhelming.
Derivative
devastatingly adv.
THESAURUS
devastating
acid, baneful, beaming, bewitching, bitter, blooming, bright, brilliant, calamitous, captivating, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, caustic, consuming, consumptive, dazzling, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, disastrous, divine, doomful, enthralling, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, glamorous, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, heavenly, incisive, internecine, keen, killing, mordant, nihilist, nihilistic, overpowering, penetrating, radiant, ravaging, raving, ravishing, resplendent, ruining, ruinous, sarcastic, sardonic, satirical, savage, self-destructive, shining, sparkling, spectacular, spellbinding, splendid, splendorous, splendrous, stunning, sublime, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, telling, trenchant, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, virulent, vitriolic, wasteful, wasting, witheringROGET THESAURUS
devastating
Destruction
N destruction, waste, dissolution, breaking up, diruption, disruption, consumption, disorganization, fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash, eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle, break down, break up, fall apart, prostration, desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm, washout, extinction, annihilation, destruction of life, knock-down blow, doom, crack of doom, destroying, demolition, demolishment, overthrow, subversion, suppression, abolition, biblioclasm, sacrifice, ravage, razzia, inactivation, incendiarism, revolution, extirpation, beginning of the end, commencement de la fin, road to ruin, dilapidation, sabotage, destroyed, perishing, trembling to its fall, nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall, in course of destruction, extinct, all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing, destructive, subversive, ruinous, devastating, incendiary, deletory, destroying, suicidal, deadly, with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer, delenda est Carthago, dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit, ecrasez l'infame.For further exploring for "devastating" in Webster Dictionary Online