'Destructive' definitions:
Definition of 'destructive'
From: WordNet
adjective
Causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism" [ant: constructive]
Definition of 'Destructive'
From: GCIDE
- Destructive \De*struc"tive\, n. One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Destructive'
From: GCIDE
- Destructive \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. [1913 Webster]
- Time's destructive power. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'destructive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Destructive'
- Destruct,
- Destructibility,
- Destructible,
- Destructibleness,
- Destruction,
- Destructively,
- Destructiveness,
- Destructive distillation,
- Destructive sorities,
- Destructive sorties,
- destruction city of,
- destruction fire,
- destructive metabolism,
- Self-destruction,
- Self-destructive,
- destructive-metabolic,
- self-destruct,
- weapon of mass destruction