Dictionary    Maps    Thesaurus    Translate    Advanced >   


Tip: Click a synonym from the results below to see its synonyms.

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for destructive:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
destructive
    adj 1: causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is
           destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"
           [ant: constructive]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Destructive \De*struc"tive\, a. [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.
   [1913 Webster]

         Time's destructive power.                --Wordsworth.
   [1913 Webster]

   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.
        [1913 Webster]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Destructive \De*struc"tive\, n.
   One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
   [1913 Webster]

Common Misspellings >
Most Popular Searches: Define Misanthrope, Define Pulchritudinous, Define Happy, Define Veracity, Define Cornucopia, Define Almuerzo, Define Atresic, Define URL, Definitions Of Words, Definition Of Get Up, Definition Of Quid Pro Quo, Definition Of Irreconcilable Differences, Definition Of Word, Synonyms of Repetitive, Synonym Dictionary, Synonym Antonyms. See our main index and map index for more details.

©2011-2024 ZebraWords.com - Define Yourself - The Search for Meanings and Meaning Means I Mean. All content subject to terms and conditions as set out here. Contact Us, peruse our Privacy Policy