devastating

/dev-uh-stey-ting/US // ˈdɛv əˌsteɪ tɪŋ //UK // (ˈdɛvəˌsteɪtɪŋ) //

破坏性的,毁灭性的,破坏性,破坏性大

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
- : satirical, ironic, or caustic in an effective way: a devastating portrayal of society.

adj.causing devastation

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As devastating as the fires have become, we’re still just at the early edge of climate change, says Diego Saez-Gil, chief executive of Pachama, a startup using AI and satellite data to help restore and protect forests.
Just a few weeks after Hurricane Laura—the strongest storm on record to make landfall in Louisiana—brought devastating storm surges and rainfall to the Gulf Coast, there are now five more named storms in the Atlantic.
Learning of safety issues after millions of healthy people have been vaccinated would be devastating to the nation’s health and public confidence.
My sense was that of all the devastating consequences of a warming planet — changing landscapes, pandemics, mass extinctions — the potential movement of hundreds of millions of climate refugees across the planet stands to be among the most important.
Every week, we lose far more of our fellow citizens than died 19 years ago in the most devastating terrorist strike in American history.
On the other hand, if you think about it, those basic industrial effects can be the most devastating.
The premise was simple: satire is devastating against tyrants.
Gopal, a journalist who covered the war, gives a devastating account of how the conflict was astoundingly mishandled.
The event was a devastating one for Sierra Leone, deemed a “super-spreader” by The New York Times.
Though devastating for the individual, this form is not that large a public health concern.

/dev-uh-stey-ting/US // ˈdɛv əˌsteɪ tɪŋ //UK // (ˈdɛvəˌsteɪtɪŋ) //

破坏性的,毁灭性的,破坏性,破坏性大

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : tending or threatening to devastate: a devastating fire.
- : satirical, ironic, or caustic in an effective way: a devastating portrayal of society.

adj.causing devastation

Synonyms

Antonyms

As devastating as the fires have become, we’re still just at the early edge of climate change, says Diego Saez-Gil, chief executive of Pachama, a startup using AI and satellite data to help restore and protect forests.
Just a few weeks after Hurricane Laura—the strongest storm on record to make landfall in Louisiana—brought devastating storm surges and rainfall to the Gulf Coast, there are now five more named storms in the Atlantic.
Learning of safety issues after millions of healthy people have been vaccinated would be devastating to the nation’s health and public confidence.
My sense was that of all the devastating consequences of a warming planet — changing landscapes, pandemics, mass extinctions — the potential movement of hundreds of millions of climate refugees across the planet stands to be among the most important.
Every week, we lose far more of our fellow citizens than died 19 years ago in the most devastating terrorist strike in American history.
On the other hand, if you think about it, those basic industrial effects can be the most devastating.
The premise was simple: satire is devastating against tyrants.
Gopal, a journalist who covered the war, gives a devastating account of how the conflict was astoundingly mishandled.
The event was a devastating one for Sierra Leone, deemed a “super-spreader” by The New York Times.
Though devastating for the individual, this form is not that large a public health concern.