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disruptive

adj
/dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/UK/dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/US

Etymology

From disrupt + -ive. In the business sense popularized by Clayton Christensen and Joseph Bower, see 1995 citation.

  1. borrowed from disruptus
  2. suffixed as disruptive — “disrupt + -ive”

Definitions

  1. Causing disruption or unrest.

    • Children who exhibit disruptive behaviour may be expelled from school.

  2. Causing major change, as in a market.

    • disruptive technologies
    • […] companies tend to lose their leadership positions to companies that enter the market with a disruptive technology or market change.

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Derived

chemodisruptive, chronodisruptive, disruptively, disruptiveness, disruptive selection, disruptivity, immunodisruptive, photodisruptive, undisruptive

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA