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destructive /dɪˈstrʌktɪv /adjective1Causing great and irreparable damage: the destructive power of weapons...- However, viruses of the mind can program us to think and behave in ways that are destructive to our lives.
- Alcohol is as destructive to health worldwide as smoking and high blood pressure, it was claimed today.
- It's not just that these farms are destructive to the local environment and economy.
Synonyms devastating, ruinous, disastrous, catastrophic, calamitous, cataclysmic; pernicious, noxious, environmentally unfriendly, harmful, damaging, injurious, hurtful, wounding, violent, detrimental, deleterious, disadvantageous, ravaging, crippling, savage, fierce, brutal, dangerous, fatal, deadly, lethal, death-dealing 1.1Negative and unhelpful: destructive criticism...- Don't be influenced or affected by negative and destructive people around you.
- Adopt a positive approach and stay away from negative and destructive people.
- What do you see as the role of meditation in working with destructive emotions and negative emotions?
Synonyms negative, hostile, antagonistic; unhelpful, disobliging, obstructive, vexatious, vicious, unfriendly, discouraging Derivatives destructively /dɪˈstrʌktɪvli / adverb ...- We want the government to fulfil its promises because if they fail, our people will react destructively.
- The crux is that when these young men encounter resistance beyond the family for the first time - when they don't get into university or college, for example - they react helplessly and destructively.
- That would be odd, as they are literally, when gathered in the same room, an explosive force so destructively powerful as to merit the moniker ‘the bomb.’
destructiveness /dɪˈstrʌktɪvnəs / noun ...- There was a game reserve in South Africa in which a herd of elephants suddenly exhibited uncharacteristic, senseless violence and destructiveness.
- The wanton destructiveness of modern warfare strengthens this obligation.
- As against these, the stupendous increase in the destructiveness of air power has been of limited utility in guerrilla war.
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