apocalyptically

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English apocalyptic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English apocalyptically From apocalyptic + -ally.

1. In an apocalyptic manner.
2. In a manner portending future disaster, devastation, and doom.

   “Aerial warfare and the atomic bomb, which he “invented” in The War in the Air (1908) and The World Set Free (1914), have proved as apocalyptically destructive as he prophesied.”

   “I hope I appear not to speak too apocalyptically in saying that the problem is still there to minister to our interest and perhaps even a little to our anxiety.”