Thesaurus: destructive

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1. a. Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.
2. n. One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
3. adj. causing destruction or much damage
4. Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth. Time's destructive power. Wordsworth. Destructive distillation. See Distillation. -- Destructive sorties ( (Logic), a process of reasoning which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of reductio ad absurdum. Whately. Syn. -- Mortal; deadly; poisonous; fatal; ruinous; malignant; baleful; pernicious; mischievous. One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
5. Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, ordevastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous;pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructiveof health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.Time's destructive power. Wordsworth.Destructive distillation. See Distillation.-- Destructive sorties ( (Logic), a process of reasoning whichinvolves the denial of the first of a series of dependentpropositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species ofreductio ad absurdum. Whately.
6. j:100 a. causing destruction or much damage