Disruptive

3 definitions found

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

  Disruptive \Dis*rupt"ive\, a.
     Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by
     disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive
     discharge of an electrical battery. --Nichol.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disruptive
       adj : characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination;
             "effects of the struggle will be violent and
             disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas";
             "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a
             turbulent and unruly childhood" [syn: {riotous}, {troubled},
              {tumultuous}, {turbulent}]

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

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "disruptive":
     ablative, bad, biodegradable, corrosive, decomposable, decomposing,
     degradable, dilapidated, disintegrable, disintegrated,
     disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disorderly, erosive,
     improper, misbehaving, moldering, naughty, not respectable,
     off-base, out-of-line, ravaged, resolvent, rowdy, rowdyish,
     ruffianly, ruinous, separative, solvent, unbehaving, worn