destructive
Meaning of destructive
- Causing destruction; damaging.
- Causing breakdown or disassembly.
Catabolism is a destructive metabolism that involves the breakdown of molecules and release of energy.
- Lossy; causing irreversible change.
Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not.
Information about destructive
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of destructive
de-struc-tive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- destructive is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
destructive synonyms
Meaning :
calamitous, catastrophic, devastating, disastrous, eradicative, harmful, pernicious, ruinous, wrackful, wreckful
destructive antonyms
Meaning :
constructive, nondestructive, productive
Translation of destructive
- German: vernichtend
- Spanish: destructivo, destructiva
- French: destructeur
- Italian: distruttivo
- Portuguese: destrutivo
Words that rhyme with destructive
Conservative, Native, Perative, Representative, abdicative, aberrative, abirritative, ablative, abnegative, abrogative, accelerative, accommodative, acculturative, accumulative, accusative, acervative, acetylative, aconative, acurative, adaptative, adequative, adjudicative, administrative, admirative, adoptative, adumbrative, adversative, advocative, affiliative, affinitative, affirmative, afformative, affricative, agglomerative, agglutinative, aggravative, aggregative, agitative, albificative, alimentative, allative, alleviative, alliterative, alterative, altercative, alternative, amalgamative, amative, ambulative, ameliorative