English > destructive: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Causing destruction or much damage / damage. |
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| Examples | - "a policy that is destructive to the economy"
- "destructive criticism"
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| Narrower | annihilative, annihilating, devastating, withering | wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction |
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| blasting, ruinous | Causing injury or blight |
| cataclysmal, cataclysmic | severely destructive |
| caustic, corrosive, erosive, vitriolic, mordant | Of a substance, especially a strong acid |
| crushing, devastating | physically or spiritually devastating |
| damaging, negative | designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions |
| erosive | wearing away by friction |
| iconoclastic | destructive of images used in religious worship |
| ravaging | ruinously destructive and wasting |
| soul-destroying | destructive to the spirit or soul |
| wasteful | laying waste |
| See also | harmful | Causing or capable of causing harm |
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| negative | Characterized by or displaying negation or denial / denial or opposition or resistance |
| Opposite | constructive | Constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development |
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| Spanish | demoledor, destructivo, destructor, devastador |
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| Catalan | demolidor, destructiu, destructor, devastador |
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| Nouns | destructiveness | the quality of causing destruction |
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| Adverbs | destructively | in a destructive manner |
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| Verbs | destroy | do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of |
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