Another word for destructive
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Adjective
Causing ruin or destruction
- Causing or apt to cause ruin; destructive:
- Falling to ruin; dilapidated or decayed.
- Vitally affecting subsequent events; being of great consequence; momentous:
- Controlled by or as if by fate; predetermined.
- Bringing death or disaster; fatal.
- Causing or capable of causing death.
- Causing ruin or destruction; disastrous:
- Of decisive importance; fateful:
- Accompanied by or causing distress or disaster; calamitous.
- Extremely bad; terrible:
- Of, relating to, or involving a catastrophe.
- Involving or resulting in substantial, often ruinous medical expense:
- Of or pertaining to a cataclysm; causing great destruction or upheaval; catastrophic.
- Causing or involving calamity; disastrous.
See also:Having the capability or effect of damaging irreparably
- Causing or apt to cause ruin; destructive:
- Falling to ruin; dilapidated or decayed.
- Tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly:
- Causing great harm; destructive:
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Another word for destructive
Modifier
Unfavorable
- Expressing, containing, or consisting of a negation, refusal, or denial:
- Indicating opposition or resistance:
- Unpleasant; disagreeable:
- Acting or serving to oppose; antagonistic:
- Contrary to one's interests or welfare; harmful or unfavorable:
- Moving in an opposite or opposing direction:
See also:Destroying
- Present participle of erode.
- Causing erosion:
- Having the capability or tendency to cause corrosion:
- Gradually destructive; steadily harmful:
- Spitefully sarcastic:
- Losing cohesion or unity.
- (psychology) Having disorganized psychological and behavioral processes.
- Portending evil; ominous:
- Harmful or malignant in intent or effect:
- Of, relating to, or caused by a toxin or other poison:
- Capable of causing injury or death, especially by chemical means; poisonous:
- Extremely risky or harmful, as a debt for which the borrower is in default and the collateral has lost so much value that its sale cannot cover the amount of the loan.
- Tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly:
- Causing great harm; destructive:
- Secreting and transmitting venom:
- Full of or containing venom:
- Malicious; spiteful:
- Causing or tending to cause injury; harmful:
- Offensive or insulting; hurtful:
- Morally bad or wrong; wicked:
- Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful:
- Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous:
- Considering or desiring to commit suicide.
- Relating to suicide:
- Dangerous to oneself or to one's interests; self-destructive or ruinous:
- Relating to, causing, or produced by disruption.
- Radically reconfiguring a particular field of business, as by implementing new technologies or a more competitive business model:
- Capable of, guilty of, or intending murder:
- Characteristic of or giving rise to murder or bloodshed:
- Capable of devastating or overwhelming:
- Causing or designed to cause fires:
- Of or containing chemicals that produce intensely hot fire when exploded:
- Intentionally started or set:
- Intending or intended to subvert an established order, especially to undermine or overthrow an established government:
- One who advocates or is regarded as advocating subversion.
- That produces conflagration
- Causing or capable of causing harm; injurious.
- Causing pain or suffering, especially of a psychological nature.
- Damaging or harmful:
- Capable of causing utter destruction or serving to destroy utterly:
- Causing damage or harm; injurious.
- Causing mischief.
- Playful in a naughty or teasing way.
- Troublesome; irritating:
- Liable or subject to death; not immortal:
- Of or relating to humans as being subject to death:
- Causing death; fatal:
- Of or relating to struggle within a nation, organization, or group.
- Mutually destructive; ruinous or fatal to both sides.
- Characterized by bloodshed or carnage.
- Of, relating to, or pertaining to an extirpation.
- Causing or capable of causing death:
- Extremely harmful; devastating:
- Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous:
- Urgent; desperate:
- causing devastation
- Present participle of devastate.
- To cause to fall by striking; cut or knock down:
- To kill:
- To sew or finish (a seam) with the raw edges flattened, turned under, and stitched down.
- Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.
- (rare) That which eradicates.
- Accompanied by or causing distress or disaster; calamitous.
- Extremely bad; terrible:
- Causing or involving calamity; disastrous.
- Of, relating to, or involving a catastrophe.
- Involving or resulting in substantial, often ruinous medical expense:
- Pestilent.
- Having a harmful effect; injurious:
- Causing or capable of causing death.
- Causing ruin or destruction; disastrous:
- Of decisive importance; fateful:
- (oncology) Relating to or affected with cancer.
- Growing or spreading rapidly to the point of harm.
- Offensive to the point of arousing disgust; foul:
- Harmful or dangerous:
- Producing or breeding infectious disease.
- Infected with or contaminated by an epidemic disease.
- Morally evil or deadly; pernicious.
- Causing harm, ruin, or death; harmful.
- Portending harm; ominous.
- Harmful to living things; injurious to health:
- Harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting:
- Causing or apt to cause ruin; destructive:
- Falling to ruin; dilapidated or decayed.
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