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say it: DEV-uh-stay-ting
devastating is an adjective meaning "making light of". It carries 3 recorded senses.
making light of
“afire with annihilating invective”
“a devastating portrait of human folly”
“to compliments inflated I've a withering reply”
wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction
“possessing annihilative power”
“a devastating hurricane”
“the guns opened a withering fire”
physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination
“a crushing blow”
“a crushing rejection”
“bone-crushing”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for devastating come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.