Synonyms for destructive
dɪˈstrʌk tɪvde·struc·tive

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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

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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

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1. destructive

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

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

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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

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1. devasting

   Submitted by anonymous on December 16, 2019  

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1. destructiveadjective

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

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1. destructiveadjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "destructive":

   devastating, disastrous, subversive, damaging, destroyer, disruptive, destroyed, catastrophic, devastated, destruction, harmful, ruinous, detrimental, corrosive

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1. Marvin E. Wolfgang:

   It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal.

2. Dror Ladin:

   President Trump's xenophobic wall is already leveling protected lands, desecrating cultural sites, and destroying wildlife, there's no undoing the damage that's been done, but we will be back before The Supreme Court to finally put a stop to this destructive wall.

3. Kohn Colapinto:

   It can be like pulling teeth. The delays are highly destructive.

4. Chinese:

   Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind; anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body.

5. Julie Gunlock:

   If Meghan Markle really wanted to be provocative and challenge people's views, she would push back on men who abandon their wives, partners, and children and reject the destructive narrative that tells boys and young men that theirnatural behaviors are inappropriate, toxic, dangerous, and in need of reform, markle thinks she's produced something new, but she's done nothing original or even interesting. Masculine behaviors in boys and young men and traditional fatherhood aren't the problem. What is a problem in this society ischildren growing up without fathers and boys being told they are inherently bad or damaged.