Associations to the word «Destructive»

Wiktionary

DESTRUCTIVE, adjective. Causing destruction; damaging.
DESTRUCTIVE, adjective. Causing breakdown or disassembly.
DESTRUCTIVE CRITICISM, noun. Criticism performed with the intention to harm someone, derogate and destroy someone’s creation, prestige, reputation and self-esteem.
DESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION, noun. (chemistry) The heating of a material, such as coal or wood, in an inert atmosphere, at a high temperature such as to cause decomposition; the principal products include oils and tars from which many useful organic compounds may be obtained; town gas and coke were obtained in this way.
DESTRUCTIVE SORITES, noun. (logic) A process of reasoning which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of reductio ad absurdum.

Dictionary definition

DESTRUCTIVE, adjective. Causing destruction or much damage; "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats