Destructive

Adjective

 * 1) Causing destruction; damaging.
 * 2) Causing break down or disassembly.
 * Catabolism is a destructive metabolism which involves the break down of molecules and release of energy.

Synonyms

 * calamitous
 * catastrophic
 * devastating
 * disastrous
 * eradicative
 * harmful
 * pernicious
 * ruinous

Antonyms

 * constructive
 * nondestructive
 * productive

Related terms

 * destruct
 * destruction
 * destructively
 * destructiveness
 * destructivity

Adverbs for Destructive
appallingly; unnecessarily; drunkenly; hysterically; angrily; riotously; deliberately; designedly; wantonly; universally; widely; horribly; unbelievably; lethally; instantly; eventually; indiscriminately; probably; infallibly; remorselessly; inconceivably; ominously; mercilessly; incalculably'; ultimately; wastefully; carelessly; thoughtlessly; needlessly; meanly; hatefully; systematically.

Thesaurus
adverse, annihilative, antithetical, bad, baleful, baneful, black, brutal, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, catching, communicable, condemnatory, conflicting, consuming, consumptive, contagious, contradictory, contrary, critical, damaging, dangerous, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, deleterious, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, derogatory, desolating, destroying, detrimental, devastating, dire, disapproving, disastrous, disparaging, doomful, envenomed, fatal, fateful, fell, feral, fratricidal, grievous, harmful, hurtful, infectious, infective, injurious, internecine, killing, lethal, malign, malignant, mephitic, miasmal, miasmatic, miasmic, mortal, negative, nihilist, nihilistic, noxious, opposed, opposing, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ravaging, ruining, ruinous, savage, self-destructive, shattering, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, toxic, toxicant, toxiferous, tragic, unfavorable, unwholesome, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, virulent, wasteful, wasting, withering, wreckful

Etymology
From destructivus:, from past participle of destruo: + -ivus:

Pronunciation
de*struc"tive

Translations

 * Bulgarian: разрушителен
 * Croatian:, , rušilački
 * Dutch: destructief, destructieve, verwoestend, verwoestende
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,


 * Hebrew: הרסני (harsany)
 * Interlingua: destructive
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: destrutivo
 * Romanian: distructiv, ditrugător, dstrugător
 * Russian: разрушительный
 * Scottish Gaelic: millteach, sgriosach, sgriosail
 * Spanish: