Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(politics, chiefly derogatory) One who delights in destroying that which is valuable, or whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing social, economic or political institutions..
The foreign and literal warfare, meantime, is a thousand times more desirable than the intestine warfare between the Destructionist and the Conservative.
The great Dr. Watts may be considered, in some measure, a destructionist; since it was his opinion that the children of ungodly parents who die in infancy are annihilated.
The Destructionist and Annihilationist heretics have drawn their doctrines very fairly from the language of the Gospels and Epistles
Use destructionist when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Destructionist means (politics, chiefly derogatory) One who delights in destroying that which is valuable, or whose principles and influence tend to destroy existing social, economic or political institutions..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The foreign and literal warfare, meantime, is a thousand times more desirable than the intestine warfare between the Destructionist and the Conservative.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.