Catastrophic
Catastrophic adjective - Bringing about ruin or misfortune.
Poor and catastrophic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Poor" instead an adjective "Catastrophic".
Nearby Word: catastrophe
Poor
Poor adjective - Lacking money or material possessions.
Catastrophic and poor are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Catastrophic" instead an adjective "Poor".
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- Because of the poor fields they were taking off from, it was entirely possible for the rubber-tired take-off wheel assembly to bounce higher than the altitude it was dropped from...and smash into the plane, often resulting in a catastrophic explosion.
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Poor and Catastrophic. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/catastrophic/poor
Catastrophic & Poor. N.p., 2016. Web. 01 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/catastrophic/poor>.
Poor or Catastrophic. 2016. Accessed August 01, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/catastrophic/poor.
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