destructive
Adjective
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Causing destruction or much damage (synset 300588876)
"a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"also:similar to:
- annihilating, annihilative, devastating, withering - wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction
- blasting, ruinous - causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
- cataclysmal, cataclysmic - severely destructive
- caustic, corrosive, erosive, mordant, vitriolic - of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
- crushing, devastating - physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination
- damaging, negative - designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
- erosive - wearing away by friction
- iconoclastic - destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited
- ravaging - ruinously destructive and wasting
- soul-destroying - destructive to the spirit or soul
- wasteful - laying waste
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