Deteriorative

Quick meaning: Deteriorative is an adjective meaning Causing deterioration.

Meaning

Causing deterioration.

Example Sentences

Dr. C. Lee Carlisle’s article on Maniacal Conditions in Young Adults deals with the differential diagnosis between the non-deteriorative and the deteriorative psychoses.

This schema is especially fruitful for Mr. McGirk because if he tries to adapt our situation to this model it simultaneously exposes a “war crime cover-up” and shows the deteriorative (albeit exaggerated) effects of war on U.S. marines (the best of the best), which could be expanded by the general press as a testament for why the U.S. should pull out of Iraq.

In this spirit, it is desirable that wars should be considered, not as an evilI whose bitterness may be redeemed by the meretricious glory which sometimes covers its atrocities with a fictitious splendour, but one which is in every way deteriorative of our happiness and prosperity — as subservient to tyranny and despotism, inimical to the rights of the people, and generally prejudicial to society.

Antonyms for deteriorative

Common opposites include ameliorative, nondeteriorative.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include degradatory, degrative, corrosive, depreciating, depreciative, disintegrating.

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