Synonyms of the word

destructive

• adj. Causing destruction; damaging.
• adj. Causing breakdown or disassembly.
• adj. (computing) Lossy; causing irreversible change.

annihilating

• v. present participle of annihilate.

annihilative

• adj. Serving to annihilate; radically destructive.

blasting

• v. present participle of blast.
• n. A planned explosion, as in mining.
• n. The act by which something is blasted, or blighted.

cataclysmal

• adj. As destructive as a cataclysm.

cataclysmic

• adj. Of or pertaining to a cataclysm; causing great destruction or upheaval; catastrophic.

caustic

• adj. Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
• adj. (of language, etc.) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.
• n. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys…
• n. (optics, computer graphics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or…
• n. (mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
• n. (informal, chemistry) Caustic soda.

corrosive

• adj. Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of…
• adj. Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
• adj. destroying or undermining something gradually.
• n. That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
• n. Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.

crushing

• v. present participle of crush.
• adj. That crushes; overwhelming.
• adj. Devastatingly disheartening.
• n. The action of the verb to crush.
• n. A former method of execution.
• n. (in plural) crushed material.

damaging

• v. present participle of damage.
• adj. Harmful; injurious; causing damage.
• n. An act of causing damage.

devastating

• adj. causing devastation.
• v. present participle of devastate.

erosive

• adj. Of or pertaining to erosion.
• adj. Causing or tending to cause erosion.

harmful

• adj. of a kind likely to be damaging; injurious.

iconoclastic

• adj. Characterized by attack on established and accepted beliefs, customs, or institutions; of or pertaining…

mordant

• adj. Having or showing a sharp or critical quality; biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
• n. Any substance used to facilitate the fixing of a dye to a fibre; usually a metallic compound which reacts…
• n. Any corrosive substance used in etching.
• v. (transitive) To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant.

negative

• adj. not positive or neutral.
• adj. (physics) of electrical charge of an electron and related particles.
• adj. (mathematics) of number, less than zero.
• adj. (linguistics, logic) denying a proposition.
• adj. damaging; undesirable; unfavourable.
• adj. pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. (Often used pejoratively.).
• adj. Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of right…
• adj. (chemistry) metalloidal; nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic.
• adj. (New Age jargon) (pejorative) bad, unwanted, disagreeable, potentially damaging, to be avoided, unpleasant,…
• adj. Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis.
• n. refusal or withholding of assents; veto, prohibition.
• n. (law) a right of veto.
• n. (photography) an image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse.
• n. (grammar) a word that indicates negation.
• n. (mathematics) a negative quantity.
• n. (weightlifting): A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is…
• n. The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
• v. To veto; to refuse.
• v. To contradict.
• v. To disprove.
• v. To make ineffective, neutralize.
• interj. (signalling, law) An elaborate synonym for the word No.

ravaging

• v. present participle of ravage.
• n. The act by which something is ravaged.

ruinous

• adj. Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous.
• adj. Extremely costly; so expensive as to cause financial ruin.
• adj. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.

soul-destroying

• adj. Causing erosion of moral fortitude or that eliminates hope or motivation.

vitriolic

• adj. (chemistry, dated) Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from or resembling vitriol; vitriolous.
• adj. (figuratively) Bitterly scathing, caustic.

wasteful

• adj. Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
• adj. (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.

withering

• adj. Tending to destroy, devastate, overwhelm or cause complete destruction.
• adj. Diminishing rapidly.
• adj. Tending to make someone feel small; scornful in a mortifying way.
• v. present participle of wither.
• n. The process by which something withers.