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Destructive Definition And Meaning
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 \Destruc"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. \Destruc"tive\, n. One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.

Destructive Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Destructive?

[adj] causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"

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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