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What is the adjective for devastate?

What's the adjective for devastate? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs devastate and devast which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

devastated
  1. Ruined, ravaged.
  2. Extremely upset and shocked.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. shattered, distraught, distressed, overcome, gutted, overwhelmed, shocked, crushed, stunned, upset, heartbroken, traumatized, traumatised, sad, miserable, troubled, brokenhearted, unhappy, sorrowful, desolate, mournful, doleful, woeful, dolorous, wretched, anguished, agonized, tormented, despairing, grieving, weeping, saddened, agonised, cut up, inconsolable, grief-stricken, broken-hearted, afflicted, heartsick, suffering, sorrowing, dejected, depressed, despondent, melancholy, down, heavyhearted, morose, cheerless, rueful … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Christine took the bad news well enough but, the rest of the Top 9 contestants were devastated to see their fellow singer sent home.”
devastative
  1. devastating; highly destructive
  2. Synonyms:
      3. disastrous, ruinous, calamitous, devastating, cataclysmic, destructive, dire, cataclysmal, annihilatory, grievous, savage, catastrophic, fatal, damning, harmful, crippling, deadly, unfortunate, injurious, deleterious, pernicious, fateful, damaging, tragic, dreadful, awful, hurtful, detrimental, brutal, lethal, mortal, annihilative, terrible, crushing, appalling, noxious, unfavourable, baneful, shattering, ravaging, dangerous, unfavorable, severe, woeful, lamentable, grave, adverse, baleful, direful, catastrophal … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “After the devastating earthquake, the region experienced extensive devastative consequences, with thousands of people left homeless and infrastructure in ruins.”
devastational
  1. (rare) Of or pertaining to devastations.
devastating
  1. causing devastation
  2. Synonyms:
      3. destructive, ruinous, calamitous, damaging, cataclysmic, disastrous, harmful, catastrophic, injurious, pernicious, detrimental, mortal, deleterious, hurtful, noxious, annihilatory, brutal, cataclysmal, crippling, devastative, dire, disadvantageous, fatal, fierce, lethal, ravaging, savage, violent, wounding, annihilative, damning, dangerous, deadly, dreadful, eradicative, maleficent, mortifying, annihilating, baneful, desolating, death-dealing, unfortunate, tragic, terrible, awful, grievous, fateful, adverse, baleful, direful … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Freud credits himself with striking the third and most devastating blow to human narcissism.”
      “Her jaw dropped when she heard the devastating news that she would soon be laid off.”
      “There was, arguably, no more devastating wit in the twentieth century than Winston Churchill.”
devasted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of devast
devasting
  1. present participle of devast
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