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destructive - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | destructive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, devastating |
| Synonyms: | baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, consumptive, cutthroat, damaging, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, dire, disastrous, evil, fatal, fell, harmful, hurtful, internecine, lethal, mortal, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, ruinous, suicidal, toxic, venomous, annihilative, cataclysmic, catastrophic, eradicative, extirpative, lethiferous, pestilential, slaughterous, wrackful, wreckful |
| Antonyms: | assisting, building, creative, helpful, productive, aiding |
| Main Entry: | destructive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful, disparaging |
| Synonyms: | abrasive, adverse, antagonistic, caustic, contrary, corrosive, deleterious, derogatory, detrimental, discouraging, hostile, injurious, negative, offensive, opposed, troublesome, vicious, cankerous, discrediting, erosive, invalidating, undermining |
| Antonyms: | encouraging, hopeful, positive |
| Main Entry: | baneful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ruinous, injurious |
| Synonyms: | baleful, calamitous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, disastrous, evil, fatal, harmful, hurtful, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, poisonous, venomous, wicked, malefic, pestilential |
| Notes: | something is baleful that intends or portends harm or injury; something is baneful that produces harm or injury - thus, a glance may be baleful, an herb or poison baneful |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, beneficial, fortunate, helpful, lucky, beneficient |
| Main Entry: | corrosive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consuming, wearing; bitter |
| Synonyms: | acerbic, acrid, biting, caustic, cutting, destructive, incisive, sarcastic, trenchant, venomous, virulent, acerb, corroding, erosive, strongly acid, wasting |
| Antonyms: | supporting, contributing, fortifying |
| Main Entry: | deleterious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harmful, damaging |
| Synonyms: | bad, destroying, destructive, detrimental, hurtful, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial, ruinous, nocent, prejudicious, ruining |
| Antonyms: | assisting, helpful, aiding |
| Main Entry: | detrimental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | damaging, disadvantageous |
| Synonyms: | adverse, bad, baleful, deleterious, destructive, disturbing, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, mischievous, negative, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial, unfavorable |
| Antonyms: | advantageous, assisting, beneficial, helpful, profitable |
| Main Entry: | disastrous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | detrimental, devastating |
| Synonyms: | adverse, calamitous, destructive, dire, dreadful, fatal, fateful, hapless, harmful, ill-fated, luckless, ruinous, terrible, tragic, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, untoward, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, ill-starred |
| Antonyms: | blessed, fortunate, lucky, miraculous, prosperous, successful, triumphant, winning, wondrous |
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sinful, immoral |
| Synonyms: | angry, atrocious, bad, baneful, base, beastly, calamitous, corrupt, damnable, depraved, destructive, disastrous, execrable, flagitious, foul, harmful, hateful, heinous, hideous, iniquitous, injurious, loathsome, low, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nefarious, obscene, offensive, pernicious, poison, reprobate, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, spiteful, stinking, ugly, unpleasant, unpropitious, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrathful, wrong, maleficent, no good, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | auspicious, decent, good, honest, moral, sinless, upright, virtuous |
| Main Entry: | harmful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, hurtful |
| Synonyms: | adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, consumptive, corrupting, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, evil, incendiary, inimical, internecine, malicious, malignant, menacing, mischievous, murderous, nocuous, noxious, painful, pernicious, pestiferous, risky, ruinous, sinful, sinister, subversive, toxic, unhealthy, unsafe, unwholesome, virulent, cataclysmic, catastrophic, corroding, crippling, harassing, malefic, pestilential, undermining |
| Main Entry: | hurtful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | injurious, cruel |
| Synonyms: | bad, cutting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, distressing, evil, harmful, malicious, mean, mischievous, nasty, nocuous, noxious, ominous, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, spiteful, unkind, aching, afflictive, hurting, upsetting, wounding |
| Antonyms: | assisting, harmless, helpful, helping, kind, nice, aiding, relieving |
| Main Entry: | inimical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic, contrary |
| Synonyms: | adverse, antipathetic, destructive, disaffected, harmful, hostile, hurtful, ill, injurious, noxious, opposed, pernicious, repugnant, unfavorable, unfriendly, ill-disposed, inimicable, oppugnant, unwelcoming |
| Antonyms: | friendly, hospitable, kind |
| Main Entry: | injurious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful |
| Synonyms: | abusive, adverse, bad, baneful, corrupting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, evil, harmful, iniquitous, insulting, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, opprobrious, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, ruinous, slanderous, unhealthy, unjust, wrongful, libeling, nocent, unconducive |
| Antonyms: | assisting, beneficial, constructive, curing, fixing, good, healing, helpful, mending, nice, aiding |
| Main Entry: | lethal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadly |
| Synonyms: | baleful, dangerous, deathly, destructive, devastating, fatal, harmful, hurtful, malignant, mortal, mortuary, murderous, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, poisonous, virulent, mortiferous, necrotic, pestilential |
| Antonyms: | beneficial, harmless, helpful, life-giving |
| Main Entry: | malign |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hurtful, injurious |
| Synonyms: | antagonistic, antipathetic, bad, baleful, baneful, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, hateful, hostile, inimical, malevolent, malignant, noxious, pernicious, sinister, spiteful, vicious, wicked, despiteful, malefic, maleficent, rancorous |
| Antonyms: | benign, helpful, nice, aiding |
| Main Entry: | malignant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | diseased |
| Synonyms: | cancerous, deadly, destructive, fatal, internecine, lethal, mortal, poisonous, pestilential |
| Antonyms: | benign, harmless, uncancerous |
| Main Entry: | mischievous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | devilish, wicked |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, bad, bothersome, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foxy*, frolicsome, harmful, hazardous, holy terror*, hurtful, ill, impish, injurious, insidious, irksome, malicious, malignant, naughty, nocuous, perilous, pernicious, playful, precarious, puckish, rascal, risky, rude, sinful, sly, spiteful, sportive, teasing, tricky, troublesome, vexatious, vicious, wayward, dickens, exasperating, ill-behaved, misbehaving, rascally, vexing |
| Antonyms: | good, nice, obedient, behaved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | murderous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | difficult |
| Synonyms: | arduous, brutal, criminal, cruel, dangerous, deadly, destroying, destructive, devastating, fell, ferocious, harrowing, hellish, killing, lethal, ruinous, savage, strenuous, unpleasant, exhausting, sapping |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | noxious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deadly, injurious |
| Synonyms: | baneful, corrupting, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, fetid, foul, harmful, hurtful, noisome, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, poisonous, putrid, sickly, spoiled, stinking, toxic, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome, venomous, virulent, insalubrious, insalutary, pestilential |
| Antonyms: | curing, good, healthy, helpful, hygienic, pure, sterile, wholesome |
| Main Entry: | pernicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, hurtful |
| Synonyms: | baleful, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, devastating, evil, fatal, harmful, iniquitous, injurious, killing, lethal, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mortal, nefarious, noisome, noxious, offensive, pestiferous, pestilent, poisonous, prejudicial, ruinous, sinister, toxic, venomous, virulent, wicked, maleficent, miasmatic, miasmic, pestilential |
| Antonyms: | helpful, innocuous, kind, lovable, loving |
| Main Entry: | pestilent/pestilential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dangerous, |
| Synonyms: | contagious, corrupting, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, diseased, evil, fatal, infectious, injurious, lethal, mortal, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, ruinous, troublesome, vicious, contaminating, harmful baneful, tainting |
| Antonyms: | clean, healthy, hygienic, safe, sanitary |
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