Destructive
Destructive , adjective
[Latin destructivus: compare French destructif.]
Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.
Time's destructive power.
Collocations (2)
Destructive distillation , See Distillation.
Destructive sorties (Logic) , a process of reasoning which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of reductio ad absurdum. — Whately
Destructive , noun
One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.