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; - BANEFUL
Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. "Baneful hemlock." Garth. "Baneful wrath." Chapman. -- Bane"ful*ly, adv. --Bane"ful*ness, n. - DEMOCRATICAL
Democratic. The democratical was democratically received. Algernon Sidney. - 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