What does destructive mean?
Destructive means Causing destruction; damaging..
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/dɪˈstɹʌktɪv/ · adjective
Causing destruction; damaging..
The pastures are filled with gay political drop-outs, persons of reasonable intent who found the scene personally destructive.
After rescuing his estranged daughter in the last film, Live Free Or Die Hard, Willis heads to Russia to rescue his estranged son (Jai Courtney), a CIA agent on a mission to protect a whistleblower (Sebastian Koch) from a corrupt government official (Sergei Kolesnikov) with no shortage of destructive resources at his disposal.
Catabolism is a destructive metabolism that involves the breakdown of molecules and release of energy.
Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not.
Use destructive when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Destructive means Causing destruction; damaging..
Common synonyms include calamitous, catastrophic, devastating, disastrous.
Possible antonyms include constructive, nondestructive, non-destructive, productive.
The pastures are filled with gay political drop-outs, persons of reasonable intent who found the scene personally destructive.
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