destructive
adjEtymology
From Middle English destructyve, from Middle French destructif, from Latin dēstrūctīvus, from past participle of dēstruere (“to tear down, destroy”) + -īvus.
- derived from dēstrūctīvus
- derived from destructif
- inherited from destructyve
Definitions
Causing destruction
Causing destruction; damaging.
- The pastures are filled with gay political drop-outs, persons of reasonable intent who found the scene personally destructive.
Causing breakdown or disassembly.
- Catabolism is a destructive metabolism that involves the breakdown of molecules and release of energy.
Lossy
Lossy; causing irreversible change.
- Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not.
The neighborhood
- synonymcalamitous
- synonymcatastrophic
- synonymdevastating
- synonymdisastrous
- synonymeradicative
- synonymharmful
- synonympernicious
- synonymruinous
- synonymwrackful
- synonymwreckful
- antonymconstructive
- antonymnondestructive
- antonymnon-destructive
- antonymproductive
Derived
angiodestructive, antidestructive, autodestructive, cyclodestructive, cytodestructive, destructive backspace, destructive criticism, destructive distillation, destructive interference, destructively, destructiveness, destructive read, destructive sorites, destructivism, destructivist, destructivity, hyperdestructive, immunodestructive, indestructive, interdestructive, macrodestructive, neurodestructive, nondestructive, non-destructive read, omnidestructive, overdestructive, self-destructive, semidestructive, superdestructive, ultradestructive, undestructive
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at destructive. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at destructive. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at destructive
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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