apocalyptically /əˈpɒ.kə.lɪp.tɪkəli/ adverb2 •In an apocalyptic manner. •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. — 1834