destructive
English Thesaurus
1. causing destruction or much damage (adj.all)
| similar | : | blasting, ruinous, |
| definition | : | causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin (adj.all) |
| similar | : | crushing, devastating, |
| definition | : | physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination (adj.all) |
| similar | : | damaging, negative, |
| definition | : | designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions (adj.all) |
| similar | : | erosive, |
| definition | : | wearing away by friction (adj.all) |
| similar | : | iconoclastic, |
| definition | : | destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited (adj.all) |
| similar | : | ravaging, |
| definition | : | ruinously destructive and wasting (adj.all) |
| similar | : | soul-destroying, |
| definition | : | destructive to the spirit or soul (adj.all) |
| similar | : | wasteful, |
| definition | : | laying waste (adj.all) |
| also | : | harmful, |
| definition | : | causing or capable of causing harm (adj.all) |
| also | : | negative, |
| definition | : | characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features (adj.all) |
| antonym | : | constructive, |
| definition | : | constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | destructiveness, |
| definition | : | the quality of causing destruction (noun.attribute) |
| derivation | : | destroy, destruct, |
| definition | : | do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of (verb.creation) |
| antonym | : | constructive, |
| definition | : | constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | destructiveness, |
| definition | : | the quality of causing destruction (noun.attribute) |
| derivation | : | destroy, destruct, |
| definition | : | do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of (verb.creation) |
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