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Definitions for: Destructive [adj] causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
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.
De*struc"tive, n.
One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, blasting, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, caustic, corrosive, crushing, damaging, devastating, erosive, negative, obliterating, obscurant, ravaging, ruinous, soul-destroying, vitriolic, wasteful, withering
Antonyms: constructive
See Also: harmful
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