destructive
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
destructive/dɪˈstrʌktɪv/
▶adjective
- 1 causing destruction.
- 2 negative and unhelpful: destructive criticism.
– derivatives
destructively adverb,
destructiveness noun.
destructively adverb,
destructiveness noun.
'destructive' also found in these Oxford entries:
army worm
- atom bomb
- attack
- bale
- blast
- budworm
- cancer
- canker
- carpet beetle
- chafer
- clothes moth
- cockchafer
- Colorado beetle
- conflagration
- demon
- devastating
- devil
- fire
- firepower
- firestorm
- Frankenstein
- hepatotoxic
- hydrogen bomb
- internecine
- jaw
- kamikaze
- lahar
- lethal
- locust
- nail
- neutron bomb
- non-destructive
- onslaught
- pernicious
- pest
- pestilent
- poison
- pyroclastic
- ravage
- rogue
- ruinous
- self-destructive
- thunderbolt
- tornado
- vermin
- violence
