destructive

destructive
adj
1. ruinous, disastrous, dire, dreadful, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic; devastating, wasting, ravaging; disruptive, troublesome, distracting, obstreperous, unruly, subversive; annihila-tive, eradicative, extirpative, incendiary, conflagrative.
2. pernicious, injurious, deleterious, baneful, mischievous; harmful, hurtful, noxious, noisome; malicious, vicious, wicked, evil, malevolent; detrimental, disadvantageous, damaging; baleful, menacing, malignant, bad; unwholesome, poisonous, toxic, pestilential, pestiferous, virulent.
3. deadly, fell, fatal, mortal, lethal, killing; murderous, suicidal.
4. adverse, negative, contrary, contradictory, opposed, opposing, opposite, antithetical, conflicting; disproving, refuting, confuting, discrediting, invalidating; derogatory, disparaging, disapproving; unfavorable, unpropitious, inauspicious; unfriendly, antagonistic, clashing, hostile.

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