From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Destructive \De*struc"tive\, noun One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Destructive \De*struc"tive\, adjective [L. destructivus: cf. F. destructif.] Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.
Time's destructive power. --Wordsworth.
{Destructive distillation}. See {Distillation}.
{Destructive sorties}(Logic), a process of reasoning which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of reductio ad absurdum. --Whately.
Syn: Mortal; deadly; poisonous; fatal; ruinous; malignant; baleful; pernicious; mischievous.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism" [ant: {constructive}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "destructive": adverse, annihilative, antithetical, bad, baleful, baneful, black, brutal, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, catching, communicable, condemnatory, conflicting, consuming, consumptive, contagious, contradictory, contrary, critical, damaging, dangerous, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, deleterious, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, derogatory, desolating, destroying, detrimental, devastating, dire, disapproving, disastrous, disparaging, doomful, envenomed, fatal, fateful, fell, feral, fratricidal, grievous, harmful, hurtful, infectious, infective, injurious, internecine, killing, lethal, malign, malignant, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mortal, negative, nihilist, nihilistic, noxious, opposed, opposing, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ravaging, ruining, ruinous, savage, self-destructive, shattering, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, tragic, unfavorable, unwholesome, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, virulent, wasteful, wasting, withering, wreckful
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