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Adjective: destructive  di'strúk-tiv
  1. Causing destruction or much damage
    "a policy that is destructive to the economy"; "destructive criticism"

See also: annihilating, annihilative, apocalyptic, blasting, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, caustic, corrosive, crushing, damaging, devastating, erosive, harmful, iconoclastic, mordant, negative, ravaging, ruinous, soul-destroying, vitriolic, wasteful

Antonym: constructive

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