Destructive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Causing or wreaking destruction; ruinous: a destructive act; a policy that is destructive to the economy.
  • adj. Designed or tending to disprove or discredit: destructive criticism.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Causing destruction; damaging.
  • adj. Causing break down or disassembly.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to
  • n. One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Causing destruction; having a tendency to destroy or the quality of destroying; ruinous; mischievous; pernicious; hurtful: with of or to before an object: as, a destructive fire; a destructive disposition; intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.
  • In logic, refuting; disproving: as, a destructive dilemma.
  • n. One who or that which destroys; one who favors the destruction of anything for some ulterior purpose, as progress or public convenience; an overthrower of existing institutions, customs, or the like.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. causing destruction or much damage
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    poisonous    ruinous    mortal    fatal    pernicious    deadly    mischievous    malignant    baleful    destructionist   
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    dangerous    vicious    hostile    fatal    political    devastate    irrational    unjust    murderous