disruptive
/dɪsˈrʌptɪv
/adjective
1Causing or tending to cause disruption: disruptive pupils the hours of work are disruptive to home life...
- It recently balloted its members on the refusal to teach a pupil who had a long-term record of disruptive behaviour.
- The disruptive behaviour of a small minority of pupils can wreak havoc in the classrooms and corridors.
- Teachers said he was disruptive and his behaviour put other pupils at risk.
Synonyms
troublemaking, troublesome, unruly, rowdy, disorderly, undisciplined, attention-seeking, riotous, wild, turbulent;
unmanageable, uncontrollable, out of control/hand, unrestrained, obstreperous, truculent, fractious, divisive;
badly behaved, misbehaving, errant, uncooperative, rebellious;
disturbing, distracting, unsettling, upsetting, noisy, raucous
formal refractory
1.1Innovative or groundbreaking: breaking a disruptive technology into the market is never easy...
- Goodbye, portals, you were just dealt a death-defying blow from a (new) disruptive technology.
- Rising mental illness seems an inescapable consequence of the kind of rapid, disruptive change driven by market capitalism.
- Her clever ruse contrasts the disruptive force of the historical moment at hand.
Synonyms
innovative, inventive, ingenious, original, innovatory, innovational, new, novel, fresh, unconventional, unorthodox, off-centre, unusual, unfamiliar, unprecedented, avant-garde, experimental;
groundbreaking, pioneering, trailblazing, revolutionary, radical, advanced, newfangled, modern, modernistic, ultra-modern, state-of-the-art, futuristic
rare new-fashioned, neoteric
Derivatives
disruptively
/ adverb ...- What nobody has done yet, though, is to extrapolate these plans into other crisis areas where too many reporters chomp around disruptively in too little space.
- But the latter strove disruptively for extreme changes in religion and the law, until the moderate majority, to Cromwell's relief, staged a walk-out on 12 December and resigned their authority back into his hands.
- So even though IP telephony is a potentially disruptive technology for the marketplace, it doesn't act disruptively in people's lives.
disruptiveness
/ noun ...- It is a suicidal folly to condone, much less encourage, any anarchic agenda, overlooking its disruptiveness in the national context.
- All evidence points towards its disruptiveness and the fact that the organization and its leadership was not a part of the freedom struggle.
- Can you disaggregate the student's disruptiveness from his being out of step with the rest of the class?