Destructive

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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           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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Destructive \De*struc"tive\, n.
     One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  destructive
       adj : causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is
             destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"
             [ant: {constructive}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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