What are some alternative words for destructive?
Synonyms for destructive
dɪˈstrʌk tɪv
This thesaurus page is about all possible synonyms, equivalent, same meaning and similar words for the term destructive.
Princeton's WordNet
destructive(adj)
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
Wiktionary
destructive(adjective)
Synonyms:
eradicative, pernicious, ruinous, catastrophic, harmful, devastate, wrackful, calamitous, disastrous, wreckfulAntonyms:
constructive, nondestructive, productivedestructive(adjective)
Causing destruction; damaging.
Synonyms:
calamitous, wrackful, wreckful, pernicious, devastate, ruinous, eradicative, disastrous, catastrophic, harmfulAntonyms:
productive, constructive, nondestructivedestructive(adjective)
Causing break down or disassembly.
Catabolism is a destructive metabolism which involves the break down of molecules and release of energy.
Synonyms:
devastate, wrackful, pernicious, calamitous, disastrous, ruinous, catastrophic, eradicative, wreckful, harmfulAntonyms:
constructive, nondestructive, productive
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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, unwholesomeAntonyms:
advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
destructive
Synonyms:
detrimental, hurtful, noxious, injurious, deleterious, baleful, baneful, ruinous, subversiveAntonyms:
wholesome, conservative, preservative, beneficial, reparatory, subsidiary, restorative
Editors Contribution
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
destructive(a.)
Synonyms:
ruinous, pernicious, deleterious, baleful, mischievous, fatal, deadly
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
destructive(a)
Synonyms:
ruinous, iconoclastic, vandal, vandalic, internecine, deleterious, pernicious, annihilative
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "destructive":
devastating, disastrous, subversive, damaging, destroyer, disruptive, destroyed, catastrophic, devastated, destruction, harmful, ruinous, detrimental, corrosive
Words popularity by usage frequency
rank | word | |
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#841 | bad | |
#3009 | evil | |
#5264 | destruction | |
#6681 | destroyed | |
#9200 | deadly | |
#9672 | harmful | |
#9718 | foul | |
#13351 | destructive | |
#14517 | damaging | |
#15555 | devastating | |
#18988 | catastrophic | |
#20371 | detrimental | |
#20864 | disruptive | |
#21793 | destroyer | |
#22839 | disastrous | |
#24238 | devastated | |
#24683 | poisonous | |
#29440 | corrosive | |
#31651 | noxious | |
#36133 | subversive | |
#42095 | injurious | |
#42256 | mischievous | |
#43999 | deleterious | |
#48711 | pernicious | |
#54344 | hurtful | |
#80715 | devastate | |
#84995 | ruinous | |
#101921 | unwholesome | |
#114245 | baleful | |
#127931 | calamitous | |
#132519 | baneful | |
#177128 | perverting | |
#196741 | unhealthful | |
#227568 | noisome | |
#264537 | pestilential |
How to use destructive in a sentence?
Antiquities Minister Mamdouh el-Damaty:
The study of her remains shows the typical destructive damage provoked by the extension of a breast cancer as a metastasis.
Make big political contributions, this destructive cycle goes on and on.
There is evidence to indicate that we have seen destructive activity with malicious intent that was initiated by a sophisticated actor, and it is being treated by those investigative agencies both at the The FBI and the Department of Justice as seriously as you would expect.
The leadership of the UAE is playing the role of American policeman in the area and performs the dirtiest roles to help the Zionist project and is behind all destructive acts against the Muslim and Arab nations' aspirations.
Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence):
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
Translations for destructive
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- разрушителенBulgarian
- destructiuCatalan, Valencian
- destruktivní, ničivýCzech
- schädlich, zerstörend, destruktivGerman
- καταστρεπτικός, καταστροφικόςGreek
- destructivoSpanish
- tuhoisaFinnish
- destructifFrench
- urbhadhachIrish
- millteach, sgriosail, sgriosachScottish Gaelic
- הרסניHebrew
- destructiveInterlingua
- distruttivoItalian
- 破壊的Japanese
- perniciosaLatin
- verwoestend, verwoestende, destructief, destructieveDutch
- destrutivoPortuguese
- distrugător, distructivRomanian
- разрушительныйRussian
- rùšilačkī, rázōran, dȅstruktīvanSerbo-Croatian
- руйнівнийUkrainian
- تباہ کنUrdu
- 破坏性Chinese
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