destructive
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
destructive
adj 1: causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is
destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"
[ant: {constructive}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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{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.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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