Meaning of catastrophize | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To regard a bad situation as if it were disastrous or catastrophic.
   intransitive, transitive
2. To expose a behavior pattern of seeking the worst interpretation and magnifying the disagreeable outcomes (of).
   intransitive, transitive
3. To end a comedy.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Particularly likely to overreact are those who tend to catastrophize (Ellis, 1962) and those who have Type A personalities (Friedman & Rosenman, 1974).”

“Another way to catastrophize is to jump to an extreme conclusion from an unimportant or irrelevant event.”

“[I]ndividuals who catastrophized reported worse health-related quality of life, higher psychological distress, and perceived more somatic symptoms, worse consequences, and more severe emotional impact as compared to those participants who did not catastrophize.”

““The Great Feminization” catastrophizes wildly about the future, presumably because what’s happening in the present utterly undermines its central thesis.”

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