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Synonyms for destructive
dɪˈstrʌk tɪvde·struc·tive
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Wiktionary
destructiveadjective
Synonyms:
wreckful, eradicative, pernicious, ruinous, catastrophic, harmful, devastate, wrackful, calamitous, disastrousAntonyms:
nondestructive, constructive, productivedestructiveadjective
Causing destruction; damaging.
Synonyms:
harmful, catastrophic, disastrous, eradicative, ruinous, devastate, pernicious, wrackful, calamitous, wreckfulAntonyms:
nondestructive, constructive, productivedestructiveadjective
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, devastateAntonyms:
productive, nondestructive, constructive
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, unwholesomeAntonyms:
advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
destructive
Synonyms:
detrimental, hurtful, noxious, injurious, deleterious, baleful, baneful, ruinous, subversiveAntonyms:
wholesome, conservative, preservative, beneficial, reparatory, subsidiary, restorative
Princeton's WordNet
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 Contribution
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
destructiveadjective
Synonyms:
ruinous, pernicious, deleterious, baleful, mischievous, fatal, deadly
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
destructiveadjective
Synonyms:
ruinous, iconoclastic, vandal, vandalic, internecine, deleterious, pernicious, annihilative
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "destructive":
devastating, disastrous, subversive, damaging, destroyer, disruptive, destroyed, catastrophic, devastated, destruction, harmful, ruinous, detrimental, corrosive
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#841 | bad | |
#3009 | evil | |
#5264 | destruction | |
#6681 | destroyed | |
#9200 | deadly | |
#9672 | harmful | |
#9718 | foul | |
#13351 | destructive | |
#14517 | damaging | |
#15555 | devastating | |
#18988 | catastrophic | |
#20371 | detrimental | |
#20864 | disruptive | |
#21793 | destroyer | |
#22839 | disastrous | |
#24238 | devastated | |
#24683 | poisonous | |
#29440 | corrosive | |
#31651 | noxious | |
#36133 | subversive | |
#42095 | injurious | |
#42256 | mischievous | |
#43999 | deleterious | |
#48711 | pernicious | |
#54344 | hurtful | |
#80715 | devastate | |
#84995 | ruinous | |
#101921 | unwholesome | |
#114245 | baleful | |
#127931 | calamitous | |
#132519 | baneful | |
#177128 | perverting | |
#196741 | unhealthful | |
#227568 | noisome | |
#264537 | pestilential |
How to use destructive in a sentence?
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.
Your anger is like a force of nature. It can be as beautiful as a flower or as destructive as a hurricane
No one has paid a higher price for the far-left destructive agenda than Americans living in our nations inner cities, we send billions and billions and billions for years and years and its stolen money, and its wasted money.
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.
Translations for destructive
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- разрушителенBulgarian
- destructiuCatalan, Valencian
- destruktivní, ničivýCzech
- schädlich, zerstörend, destruktivGerman
- καταστρεπτικός, καταστροφικόςGreek
- destructivoSpanish
- tuhoisaFinnish
- destructifFrench
- urbhadhachIrish
- sgriosail, millteach, sgriosachScottish Gaelic
- הרסניHebrew
- destructiveInterlingua
- distruttivoItalian
- 破壊的Japanese
- perniciosaLatin
- destructieve, destructief, verwoestende, verwoestendDutch
- destrutivoPortuguese
- distructiv, distrugătorRomanian
- разрушительныйRussian
- dȅstruktīvan, rázōran, rùšilačkīSerbo-Croatian
- руйнівнийUkrainian
- تباہ کنUrdu
- 破坏性Chinese
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