Synonyms for destructive
dɪˈstrʌk tɪvde·struc·tive

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1. destructiveadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   nondestructive, constructive, productive

2. destructiveadjective

   Causing destruction; damaging.

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

   Antonyms:
   nondestructive, constructive, productive

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.

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

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

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1. destructive

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

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

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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. devasting

   Submitted by anonymous on December 16, 2019  

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1. destructiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   ruinous, pernicious, deleterious, baleful, mischievous, fatal, deadly

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1. destructiveadjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "destructive":

   devastating, disastrous, subversive, damaging, destroyer, disruptive, destroyed, catastrophic, devastated, destruction, harmful, ruinous, detrimental, corrosive

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1. Charles Kelly Barrow:

   Their support of this cultural cleansing has created a very divisive atmosphere in the South and by their silence they have created the impression that they support these hostile and destructive actions, this is not the road to brotherhood and understanding.

2. 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.

3. Ammon Bundy:

   This refuge -- it has been destructive to the people of the county and to the people of the area.

4. Gandolfo - (RJ Intindola):

   One, should be mindful, the conflicts inside you are greater and more destructive than those involving others and the environment. The internal conflict, centers on decisions and choices; where confliction takes root. Should we push the button lite by the conscious or the one, others have chosen for us. If the heart is in the picture, run in that direction.

5. Carly Fiorina:

   I think Edward Snowden has been terribly destructive, he has been less than forthcoming. It was a very slanted portrayal about what the NSA does, and he knows it.