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Synonyms for destructive
dɪˈstrʌk tɪvde·struc·tive

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Wiktionary3.0 / 3 votes

  1. destructiveadjective

    Synonyms:
    wreckful, eradicative, pernicious, ruinous, catastrophic, harmful, devastate, wrackful, calamitous, disastrous

    Antonyms:
    nondestructive, constructive, productive

  2. destructiveadjective

    Causing destruction; damaging.

    Synonyms:
    harmful, catastrophic, disastrous, eradicative, ruinous, devastate, pernicious, wrackful, calamitous, wreckful

    Antonyms:
    nondestructive, constructive, productive

  3. destructiveadjective

    Causing break down or disassembly.

    Catabolism is a destructive metabolism which involves the break down of molecules and release of energy.

    Synonyms:
    harmful, wreckful, eradicative, catastrophic, ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, pernicious, wrackful, devastate

    Antonyms:
    productive, nondestructive, constructive

English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. destructive

    Pernicious (Latin per, through, and neco, kill) signifies having the power of destroying or injuring, tending to hurt or kill. Pernicious is stronger than injurious; that which is injurious is capable of doing harm; that which is pernicious is likely to be destructive. Noxious (Latin noceo, hurt) is a stronger word than noisome, as referring to that which is injurious or destructive. Noisome now always denotes that which is extremely disagreeable or disgusting, especially to the sense of smell; as, the noisome stench proclaimed the presence of noxious gases.

    Synonyms:
    bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesome

    Antonyms:
    advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. destructive

    Synonyms:
    detrimental, hurtful, noxious, injurious, deleterious, baleful, baneful, ruinous, subversive

    Antonyms:
    wholesome, conservative, preservative, beneficial, reparatory, subsidiary, restorative

Princeton's WordNet1.0 / 2 votes

  1. destructiveadjective

    causing destruction or much damage

    "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"

    Antonyms:
    formative, inferential, rehabilitative, constructive, reconstructive, creative, shaping, plastic, structural

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. devasting

    Submitted by anonymous on December 16, 2019  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. destructiveadjective

    Synonyms:
    ruinous, pernicious, deleterious, baleful, mischievous, fatal, deadly

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. destructiveadjective

    Synonyms:
    ruinous, iconoclastic, vandal, vandalic, internecine, deleterious, pernicious, annihilative

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How to use destructive in a sentence?

  1. Mike Pence:

    While this institution has maintained an atmosphere of civility and open debate, far too many campuses across America have become characterized by speech codes, safe spaces, tone policing, administration-sanctioned political correctness -- all of which amounts to the suppression of free speech, these practices are destructive of learning and the pursuit of knowledge.

  2. Larry Benson:

    Tsunamis can be very destructive when they strike densely populated areas, so an historical example should be a wake-up call against complacency.

  3. June Jordan:

    If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.

  4. Bill Gross:

    It is demand that must be increased – yes, China must move more quickly to a consumer-based economy but the developed world must play its part by abandoning its destructive emphasis on fiscal austerity, and begin to replace its rapidly decaying infrastructure that has been delayed for decades.

  5. Metro Transit Police Communications:

    In each instance, the caller conveyed specific threat information concerning destructive devices and intended acts of violence.


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