destructive

About 9.73 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Causing destruction; damaging.
2. adjective Causing breakdown or disassembly.

   Catabolism is a destructive metabolism that involves the breakdown of molecules and release of energy.

3. adjective Lossy; causing irreversible change.

   Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not.

Similar words

ruinous withering ravaging devastating damaging annihilative soul-destroying wasteful cataclysmal cataclysmic

Often followed by

of to and power behavior effects force forces in

Word family

destructively destructiveness destructivenesses