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单词 destructive
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Definition of destructive in English:

destructive

adjective dɪˈstrʌktɪvdəˈstrəktɪv
  • 1Causing great and irreparable damage.

    破坏(性)的;毁灭(性)的

    the destructive power of weapons

    武器的破坏力。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Though she is fierce, terrifying and destructive, the Goddess is said to be quick to come to the aid of her devotees.
    • Alcohol is as destructive to health worldwide as smoking and high blood pressure, it was claimed today.
    • Beauty can be deadly and destructive, though not the kind which Audrey Hepburn had.
    • These missiles are the most deadly, destructive and inhumane weapons ever created.
    • Cuts in the sphere of culture and artistic training are enormously destructive to society.
    • Birds are just as destructive and deadly at night as they are during the day and they do fly at night.
    • The couple's relationship had been destructive, damaging and unrewarding for both of them.
    • I find that very destructive to the confidence in the system and to the future of young people.
    • I can sit here today and testify to you that bitterness is a destructive, crippling force.
    • Emotional infidelity is just as, and at times even more, destructive to your marriage.
    • However, viruses of the mind can program us to think and behave in ways that are destructive to our lives.
    • It can be extremely destructive to our health, and a haggard and stressed face is not a beautiful face.
    • On the populous coasts of Sri Lanka and India nobody was aware of the awesome destructive power racing towards them.
    • I find it hard to understand that any seafarer could be so wilfully destructive and do such damage.
    • These destructive activities disturbed the powers not only at Delhi but also at London.
    • The vehicles buckle and crash beneath his feet, which is supposed to be an awesome display of his destructive power.
    • It's not just that these farms are destructive to the local environment and economy.
    • This is partly because both sides are animated by a fierce destructive zeal.
    • And all this was mobilised to produce the most destructive weapon ever seen in the history of humanity.
    • Addiction can be enormously destructive to the individual and their families.
    Synonyms
    devastating, ruinous, disastrous, catastrophic, calamitous, cataclysmic
    pernicious, noxious, environmentally unfriendly, harmful, damaging, injurious, hurtful, wounding, violent, detrimental, deleterious, disadvantageous, ravaging, crippling, savage, fierce, brutal, dangerous, fatal, deadly, lethal, death-dealing
    1. 1.1 Negative and unhelpful.
      destructive criticism

      消极的批评。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • If they are bored, why aren't they constructive instead of destructive?
      • What do you see as the role of meditation in working with destructive emotions and negative emotions?
      • Don't be influenced or affected by negative and destructive people around you.
      • Upmarket, the Times and Telegraph are platforms for higher but no less destructive forms of scepticism.
      • I remember well that Hamish found the whole process distasteful and destructive.
      • Adopt a positive approach and stay away from negative and destructive people.
      • A clear and concentrated state of mind is required, not an aggressive and destructive one.
      • One of the problems with this type of destructive criticism is that it saps your confidence.
      • It was ungenerous, it was destructive, it was simple-minded, it was vicious, it was rubbish.
      Synonyms
      negative, hostile, antagonistic
      unhelpful, disobliging, obstructive, vexatious, vicious, unfriendly, discouraging

Derivatives

  • destructively

  • adverbdɪˈstrʌktɪvlidəˈstrəktɪvli
    • We want the government to fulfil its promises because if they fail, our people will react destructively.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The crux is that when these young men encounter resistance beyond the family for the first time - when they don't get into university or college, for example - they react helplessly and destructively.
      • Free radicals react destructively with many cellular components causing cell damage and leading to many diseases from cataract to cancer, heart disease to dementia.
      • What was needed to make rule by the people effective was the addition of mechanisms to restrain those people from overreaching and destructively turning on themselves.
      • That would be odd, as they are literally, when gathered in the same room, an explosive force so destructively powerful as to merit the moniker ‘the bomb.’
  • destructiveness

  • noundɪˈstrʌktɪvnəsdəˈstrəktɪvnəs
    • The wanton destructiveness of modern warfare strengthens this obligation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As against these, the stupendous increase in the destructiveness of air power has been of limited utility in guerrilla war.
      • The passion, if not the logic, of her argument is clear and perhaps casts a new light on the deliberate destructiveness of the motives that lay behind her literary innovations.
      • There was a game reserve in South Africa in which a herd of elephants suddenly exhibited uncharacteristic, senseless violence and destructiveness.
      • But for the last Bushmen of the central Kalahari, all this is worthless: worse, it all brings a bullying destructiveness which could spell their end.

Definition of destructive in US English:

destructive

adjectivedəˈstrəktɪvdəˈstrəktiv
  • 1Causing great and irreparable harm or damage.

    破坏(性)的;毁灭(性)的

    the destructive power of weapons

    武器的破坏力。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These destructive activities disturbed the powers not only at Delhi but also at London.
    • Emotional infidelity is just as, and at times even more, destructive to your marriage.
    • The vehicles buckle and crash beneath his feet, which is supposed to be an awesome display of his destructive power.
    • It's not just that these farms are destructive to the local environment and economy.
    • I find that very destructive to the confidence in the system and to the future of young people.
    • I can sit here today and testify to you that bitterness is a destructive, crippling force.
    • Beauty can be deadly and destructive, though not the kind which Audrey Hepburn had.
    • On the populous coasts of Sri Lanka and India nobody was aware of the awesome destructive power racing towards them.
    • And all this was mobilised to produce the most destructive weapon ever seen in the history of humanity.
    • Birds are just as destructive and deadly at night as they are during the day and they do fly at night.
    • This is partly because both sides are animated by a fierce destructive zeal.
    • Alcohol is as destructive to health worldwide as smoking and high blood pressure, it was claimed today.
    • Cuts in the sphere of culture and artistic training are enormously destructive to society.
    • These missiles are the most deadly, destructive and inhumane weapons ever created.
    • However, viruses of the mind can program us to think and behave in ways that are destructive to our lives.
    • It can be extremely destructive to our health, and a haggard and stressed face is not a beautiful face.
    • I find it hard to understand that any seafarer could be so wilfully destructive and do such damage.
    • Addiction can be enormously destructive to the individual and their families.
    • Though she is fierce, terrifying and destructive, the Goddess is said to be quick to come to the aid of her devotees.
    • The couple's relationship had been destructive, damaging and unrewarding for both of them.
    Synonyms
    devastating, ruinous, disastrous, catastrophic, calamitous, cataclysmic
    1. 1.1 Tending to refute or disparage; negative and unhelpful.
      否定的;诋毁的;消极的,无用的
      destructive criticism

      消极的批评。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • What do you see as the role of meditation in working with destructive emotions and negative emotions?
      • Don't be influenced or affected by negative and destructive people around you.
      • Adopt a positive approach and stay away from negative and destructive people.
      • It was ungenerous, it was destructive, it was simple-minded, it was vicious, it was rubbish.
      • Upmarket, the Times and Telegraph are platforms for higher but no less destructive forms of scepticism.
      • A clear and concentrated state of mind is required, not an aggressive and destructive one.
      • If they are bored, why aren't they constructive instead of destructive?
      • I remember well that Hamish found the whole process distasteful and destructive.
      • One of the problems with this type of destructive criticism is that it saps your confidence.
      Synonyms
      negative, hostile, antagonistic
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