Also found as Catastrapharian.
1. Someone who overplays or otherwise overstates negative events. Catastropharians thus create a ‘mountain out of mole hill’ or worse. Such usage also includes the hypochondriac’s reaction to describing a trifling malady such as a hangnail.
2. Someone who invents catastrophes when there are none. This would be akin to Chicken Little’s ‘the sky is falling’ pronouncement upon experiencing rain.
3. Alternately, someone who literally takes a bad situation and turns it into something worse, thereby creating a catastrophe.
“The catastropharian argument is, in a nutshell, that the larger financial obligations of an older population, when spread over a smaller base of younger workers, will create a ruinous fiscal overhang…"
Goldsmith, Jeff. The Long Baby Boom: An Optimistic Vision for a Graying Generation. JHU Press. 2008. p. 35.
1. Someone who overplays or otherwise overstates negative events. Catastropharians thus create a ‘mountain out of mole hill’ or worse. Such usage also includes the hypochondriac’s reaction to describing a trifling malady such as a hangnail.
2. Someone who invents catastrophes when there are none. This would be akin to Chicken Little’s ‘the sky is falling’ pronouncement upon experiencing rain.
3. Alternately, someone who literally takes a bad situation and turns it into something worse, thereby creating a catastrophe.
“The catastropharian argument is, in a nutshell, that the larger financial obligations of an older population, when spread over a smaller base of younger workers, will create a ruinous fiscal overhang…"
Goldsmith, Jeff. The Long Baby Boom: An Optimistic Vision for a Graying Generation. JHU Press. 2008. p. 35.
According to John Richardson, George W Bush qualified as a catastropharian for his administration’s Middle East policy.
“the great catastropharian ....” John Richardson, 15 Dec 2006,
“the great catastropharian ....” John Richardson, 15 Dec 2006,
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According to current theory, when the Great Attractor tries the swallow the Great Central Node, it will reduce the entire Universe to Catastrophic Hyperplasm.
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1)A quadriplegic clown (comedic irony = catastrophic fail)
2) Man: "im sorry i didn't call in to work yesterday sir. My car blew a tire causing me to go careening of the road, the paramedics didn't come for 2 hours, when i got home my wife thought i was at the bar all day from how i looked and she divorced me, and i found out i had cancer."
Boss: "you're fired"
(man = catastrophic failure)
3) crashing your car into a snowbank on your way to an interview because you over corrected your turning, slammed on the brakes, and were going to fast on an icy road to begin with.
(catastrophic driver/potential job fail)
2) Man: "im sorry i didn't call in to work yesterday sir. My car blew a tire causing me to go careening of the road, the paramedics didn't come for 2 hours, when i got home my wife thought i was at the bar all day from how i looked and she divorced me, and i found out i had cancer."
Boss: "you're fired"
(man = catastrophic failure)
3) crashing your car into a snowbank on your way to an interview because you over corrected your turning, slammed on the brakes, and were going to fast on an icy road to begin with.
(catastrophic driver/potential job fail)
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A friend who is melodramatic would catastrophize a lot.
A friend who is melodramatic would catastrophize a lot.
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