Word Meanings - DISRUPTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. Nichol.

Related words: (words related to DISRUPTIVE)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• BURSTEN
  p. p. of Burst, v. i.
• BURST
  berstan (pers. sing. berste, imp. sing. bærst, imp. pl. burston, p.p. borsten); akin to D. bersten, G. bersten, OHG. brestan, OS. brestan, 1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• TENDANCE
  1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• DISRUPTIVE
  Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. Nichol.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• TENDRESSE
  Tender feeling; fondness.
• TENDON
  A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• BURSTER
  One that bursts.
• CAUSTICALLY
  In a caustic manner.
• CAUSATIONIST
  One who believes in the law of universal causation.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• SUNBURST
  A burst of sunlight.
• INTENDENT
  See N
• OATHBREAKING
  The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• INTENDIMENT
  Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.