Word Meanings - DESTRUCTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: DESTRUCTIVE

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 , 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESTRUCTIVE)

• Deadly
• Mortal
• fatal
• malignant
• baleful
• pernicious
• noxious
• venomous
• destructive
• baneful
• implacable
• Deleterious
• Destructive
• injurious
• poisonous
• Democratic
• Popular
• leveling
• radical
• subversive
• unlicensed
• unarculca
• republican
• Fatal
• Calamitous
• deadly
• mortal
• lethal
• Pernicious
• Hurtful
• harmful
• deleterious
• detrimental

Related words: (words related to DESTRUCTIVE)

• MALIGNANT
  Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule , a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of
• POPULARIZATION
  The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.
• FATALNESS
  , . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.
• HURTFUL
  Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct. Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome;
• DEMOCRATICAL
  Democratic. The democratical was democratically received. Algernon Sidney.
• BANEFUL
  Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. "Baneful hemlock." Garth. "Baneful wrath." Chapman. -- Bane"ful*ly, adv. --Bane"ful*ness, n.
• FATALISTIC
  Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
• DESTRUCTIVENESS
  The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. (more info) 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.
• FATALITY
  1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. 2. The state of being fatal;
• LEVELER
  1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
• LEVEL
  libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. Librate, 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is
• RADICALNESS
  Quality or state of being radical.
• LETHAL
  One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.
• MALIGNANTLY
  In a malignant manner.
• BALEFULNESS
  The quality or state of being baleful.
• POPULAR
  1. Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections. "Popular states." Bacon. "So the popular vote inclines." Milton. The commonly held in
• VENOMOUS
  Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects. 3. Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer. Venomous snake , any serpent which has poison glands and fangs,
• INJURIOUS
  1. Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable. Milton. Till the injurious Roman did extort This tribute from us, we were free. Shak. 2. Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health,
• DETRIMENTAL
  Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison. Syn. -- Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous; mischievous; pernicious.
• BALEFULLY
  In a baleful manner; perniciously.
• OBNOXIOUS
  1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton.
• SPORADICAL
  Sporadic.
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• UNDEADLY
  Not subject to death; immortal. -- Un*dead"li*ness, n. Wyclif.
• EQUIRADICAL
  Equally radical. Coleridge.
• IMMORTALIST
  One who holds the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. Jer. Taylor.
• IMMORTAL
  1. Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance. Unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible. 1 Tim. i. 17. For my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal