Dictionary Definition
destructive adj : causing destruction or much
damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive
criticism" [ant: constructive]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
de*struc"tiveAdjective
- causing destruction; damaging.
- causing break down or
disassembly.
- Catabolism is a destructive metabolism which involves the break down of molecules and release of energy.
Antonyms
Related terms
- destruct
- destruction
- destructively
- destructiveness
- destructivity
Translations
- Dutch: destructief, destructieve, verwoestend, verwoestende
- French: destructif
- German: destruktiv, schädlich, zerstörend
- Greek: καταστροφικός (katastrofikos) , καταστρεπτικός (katastreptikos)
- Hebrew: הרסני (harsany)
- Interlingua: destructive
- Italian: distruttivo
- Portuguese: destrutivo
- Scottish Gaelic: millteach, sgriosach, sgriosail
- Spanish: destructivo
Extensive Definition
Destruction is the act of damaging something
beyond use or repair. It may also refer to:
- Destruction (band), a German thrash metal band
- Destruction (DC Comics), one of the Endless in Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman
- Destruction Bay, Yukon, Canada
See also
destructive in French: Destruction
destructive in Portuguese: Destruição
destructive in Simple English: Destruction
(disambiguation)
Destruction an object or emotion is changed in a
negative way. "Obliteration", "Disruption",
"Deconfiguration".
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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