Etymology
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From Middle French destructif Latin destructivus destruere ( “ to tear down, destroy ” ) + -ivus
Pronunciation
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( UK ) IPA (key ) : /dɪˈstɹʌktɪv/ , /dɪˈstɹʊktɪv/ Audio (Southern England) (file )
Adjective
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destructive (comparative more destructive , superlative most destructive )
Causing destruction ; damaging .
1980 August 30, David Rothenberg, “A New York State of Confusion”, in Gay Community News , volume 8, number 6, page 5:The pastures are filled with gay political drop-outs, persons of reasonable intent who found the scene personally destructive .
2013 February 14, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: A Good Day To Die Hard”, in The Onion AV Club [1] After rescuing his estranged daughter in the last film, Live Free Or Die Hard, Willis heads to Russia to rescue his estranged son (Jai Courtney ), a CIA agent on a mission to protect a whistleblower (Sebastian Koch ) from a corrupt government official (Sergei Kolesnikov ) with no shortage of destructive resources at his disposal.
Causing breakdown or disassembly .
Catabolism is a destructive metabolism that involves the breakdown of molecules and release of energy.
( computing ) Lossy ; causing irreversible change .
Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not.
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Translations
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causing destruction; damaging
Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: կործանիչ (hy) ( korcaničʻ ) , կործանարար (hy) ( korcanarar )
Bulgarian: разрушителен (bg) ( razrušitelen )
Catalan: destructiu
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: ničivý (cs) , destruktivní (cs)
Danish: destruktiv
Dutch: destructief (nl) , destructieve (nl) , verwoestend (nl) , verwoestende (nl)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: tuhoisa (fi) , destruktiivinen (fi)
French: destructif (fr)
German: destruktiv (de) , schädlich (de) , zerstörend (de)
Greek: καταστροφικός (el) m ( katastrofikós ) , καταστρεπτικός (el) m ( katastreptikós ) , αφανιστικός (el) ( afanistikós )
Ancient: ὀλέθριος ( oléthrios ) , ὀλοός ( oloós ) , δηλητήριος ( dēlētḗrios )
Hebrew: הרסני ( harsany )
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: destruktív (hu) , kártékony (hu) , pusztító (hu)
Ido: please add this translation if you can
Interlingua: destructive
Irish: urbhadhach arganach sladach Old Irish: bráthamail
Italian: distruttivo (it)
Japanese: 破壊的な ( hakaiteki na )
Korean: 파괴적 (ko) ( pagoejeok )
Latin: exitiosus exitiābilis destructivus
Persian: مخرب (fa)
Polish: destrukcyjny (pl) m
Portuguese: destrutivo (pt)
Romanian: distructiv (ro) m or n distrugător (ro) m or n
Russian: разруши́тельный (ru) ( razrušítelʹnyj )
Sanskrit: हिंस्र (sa) ( hiṃsra )
Scottish Gaelic: millteach sgriosach sgriosail
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ра́зо̄ран де̏структӣван ру̀шилачкӣ
Roman: rázōran (sh) , dȅstruktīvan (sh) , rùšilačkī (sh)
Spanish: destructivo (es)
Swedish: destruktiv (sv)
Tagalog: mapanira mapangwasak
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: please add this translation if you can
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: yıkıcı (tr) , tahripkâr
Ukrainian: руйнівний ( rujnivnyj ) , деструктивний ( destruktyvnyj )
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
Zulu: please add this translation if you can
