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Synonyms for destructive

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  1. Unfavorable

    adverse, negative, not constructive; see unfavorable 2.

  2. Destroying

    ruinous, noxious, baneful, pestiferous, noisome, cancerous, fatal, deleterious, pestilential, catastrophic, calamitous, disastrous, productive of serious evil, cataclysmal, eradicative, fell, demolitionary, devastating, dire, lethal, extirpative, internecine, mortal, mischievous, detrimental, annihilative, hurtful, harmful, arsonistic, conflagrative, subversive, incendiary, murderous, disruptive, suicidal, evil, injurious, venomous, pernicious, toxic, baleful, disintegrative, corrosive, corroding, erosive, eroding, damaging; see also deadly 1, harmful, poisonous.

    Antonyms helpful*, curative, life-saving.

See destructive in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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