Synonyms: destructive
Definition: causing destruction or much damage
Usage: a policy that is destructive to the economy; destructive criticism
Similar words: devastating, withering, annihilating, annihilative
Definition: wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction
Usage: possessing annihilative power; a devastating hurricane; the guns opened a withering fire
Similar words: blasting, ruinous
Definition: causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
Usage: the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit; the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces; a ruinous war
Similar words: cataclysmal, cataclysmic
Definition: severely destructive
Usage: cataclysmic nuclear war; a cataclysmic earthquake
Similar words: caustic, vitriolic, erosive, corrosive, mordant
Definition: of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
Similar words: devastating, crushing
Definition: physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination
Usage: a crushing blow; a crushing rejection; bone-crushing
Similar words: damaging, negative
Definition: designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions
Usage: negative criticism
Similar words: erosive
Definition: wearing away by friction
Usage: the erosive effects of waves on the shoreline
Similar words: iconoclastic
Definition: destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited
Similar words: ravaging
Definition: ruinously destructive and wasting
Usage: a ravaging illness
Similar words: soul-destroying
Definition: destructive to the spirit or soul
Usage: soul-destroying labor
Similar words: wasteful
Definition: laying waste
Usage: when wasteful war shall statues overturn- Shakespeare