destructive
Causing destruction; damaging.
Other meanings
Causing breakdown or disassembly.
“Catabolism is a destructive metabolism that involves the breakdown of molecules and release of energy.”
Lossy; causing irreversible change.
“Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not.”
Synonyms
- catastrophic
- disastrous
- harmful
Antonyms
- non-destructive
- productive
Related words
- angiodestructive
- cyclodestructive
- cytodestructive
- destructivism
- destructivist
- destructivity
- hyperdestructive
- immunodestructive
- interdestructive
- macrodestructive
- overdestructive
- semidestructive
Word history
From Latin "dēstrūctīvus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “destructive” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.