Antonyms for destructive
dɪˈstrʌk tɪvde·struc·tive

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1. destructiveadjective

   Antonyms:
   nondestructive, constructive, productive

   Synonyms:
   wreckful, eradicative, pernicious, ruinous, catastrophic, harmful, devastate, wrackful, calamitous, disastrous

2. destructiveadjective

   Causing destruction; damaging.

   Antonyms:
   nondestructive, constructive, productive

   Synonyms:
   harmful, catastrophic, disastrous, eradicative, ruinous, devastate, pernicious, wrackful, calamitous, wreckful

3. destructiveadjective

   Causing break down or disassembly.

   Catabolism is a destructive metabolism which involves the break down of molecules and release of energy.

   Synonyms:
   harmful, wreckful, eradicative, catastrophic, ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, pernicious, wrackful, devastate

   Antonyms:
   productive, nondestructive, constructive

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1. destructive

   Pernicious (Latin per, through, and neco, kill) signifies having the power of destroying or injuring, tending to hurt or kill. Pernicious is stronger than injurious; that which is injurious is capable of doing harm; that which is pernicious is likely to be destructive. Noxious (Latin noceo, hurt) is a stronger word than noisome, as referring to that which is injurious or destructive. Noisome now always denotes that which is extremely disagreeable or disgusting, especially to the sense of smell; as, the noisome stench proclaimed the presence of noxious gases.

   Antonyms:
   advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome

   Synonyms:
   bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesome

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1. destructive

   Antonyms:
   wholesome, conservative, preservative, beneficial, reparatory, subsidiary, restorative

   Synonyms:
   detrimental, hurtful, noxious, injurious, deleterious, baleful, baneful, ruinous, subversive

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1. destructiveadjective

   causing destruction or much damage

   "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"

   Antonyms:
   formative, inferential, rehabilitative, constructive, reconstructive, creative, shaping, plastic, structural

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1. destructiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   ruinous, iconoclastic, vandal, vandalic, internecine, deleterious, pernicious, annihilative

How to use destructive in a sentence?

1. Rebecca Concepcion Apostol:

   Today's destructive actions by Trump, if not blocked by the courts or immediately reversed by the next president, will have reverberations for decades to come.

2. Roy Blunt:

   Just because the so-called squad constantly insults and attacks New York `` The President isn't a reason to adopt their unacceptable tactics, there is plenty to say about how destructive House Democrats' policies would be for our economy, our health care system, and our security. I think that's where the focus should be.

3. Engkos Kosasih:

   She became destructive, dug up other people's crops and ate raw corn from the plant. I was ashamed and scared.

4. Shannon Urbans:

   My brain says' You're stupid and you can't do this,' you need something to take the anxiety away. ... I don't have drinking as an outlet. I'm alone much more with those destructive thoughts than I normally am. I have to figure out how to work through them in a healthy way and during a pandemic.

5. Prince Turki al-Faisal:

   They are equally threatening, and one feeds off the other, both of them are equally vicious, equally treacherous, and equally destructive.

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