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The definition of destructive is destroying or creating chaos.

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An example of someone who is destructive is a person who breaks up every friendship he has ever had.

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See destructive in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

tending or likely to cause destruction
causing or producing destruction; destroying
merely negative; not helpful: destructive criticism

Origin: OFr destructif < LL destructivus

Related Forms:

destructively adverb
destructiveness noun or destructivity

See destructive in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Causing or wreaking destruction; ruinous: a destructive act; a policy that is destructive to the economy.
Designed or tending to disprove or discredit: destructive criticism.

Related Forms:

de·strucˈtive·ly adverb

de·strucˈtive·ness, deˌstruc·tivˈi·ty (dēˌstrŭk-tĭvˈĭ-tē) noun

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