About The Word Destructive
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Destructive
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What's The Definition Of Destructive?
[adj] causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Destructive: annihilating | annihilative | blasting | cataclysmal | cataclysmic | caustic | corrosive | crushing | damaging | devastating | erosive | negative | obliterating | obscurant | ravaging | ruinous | soul-destroying | vitriolic | wasteful | withering Related Terms | Find terms related to Destructive: adverse | annihilative | antithetical | bad | baleful | baneful | black | brutal | calamitous | cataclysmal | cataclysmic | catastrophic | catching | communicable | condemnatory | conflicting | consuming | consumptive | contagious | contradictory | contrary | critical | damaging | dangerous | deadly | death-bringing | deathful | deathly | deleterious | demolishing | demolitionary | depredatory | derogatory | desolating | destroying | detrimental | devastating | dire | disapproving | disastrous | disparaging | doomful | envenomed | fatal | fateful | fell | feral | fratricidal | grievous | harmful | hurtful | infectious | infective | injurious | internecine | killing | lethal | malign | malignant | mephitic | miasmal | miasmatic | miasmic | mortal | negative | nihilist | nihilistic | noxious | opposed | opposing | pernicious | pestiferous | pestilential | poisonous | ravaging | ruining | ruinous | savage | self-destructive | shattering | subversionary | subversive | suicidal | toxic | toxicant | toxiferous | tragic | unfavorable | unwholesome | vandalic | vandalish | vandalistic | venenate | veneniferous | venenous | venomous | virulent | wasteful | wasting | withering | wreckful See Also | harmful Destructive In Webster's Dictionary \De*struc"tive\, a. [L. destructivus: cf. F.
destructif.]
Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or
devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil;
mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as,
intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are
destructive to the morals of youth.
Time's destructive power. --Wordsworth.
{Destructive distillation}. See {Distillation}.
{Destructive sorties}(Logic), a process of reasoning which
involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent
propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a
species of reductio ad absurdum. --Whately.
Syn: Mortal; deadly; poisonous; fatal; ruinous; malignant;
baleful; pernicious; mischievous.
\De*struc"tive\, n. One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist. |
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