Definition of Destructive
Destructive
Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.
One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
Related Definitions:
About,
Are,
As,
Bring,
Causing,
Death,
Destruction,
Destructionist,
Destructive,
Devastation,
Evil,
Fatal,
Health,
Intemperance,
Is,
Mischievous,
Of,
Often,
One,
Or,
Pernicious,
Productive,
Radical,
Reformer,
Ruin,
Ruinous,
Serious,
Tending,
The,
To,
Who,
With,
Youth
Destructive Quotations
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein
Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore Roosevelt
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador Dali
Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
Norman Cousins
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Erich Fromm
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan Watts
Destructive Translations
destructive in Latin is perniciosus
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
