Causing destruction; damaging.
The pastures are filled with gay political drop-outs, persons of reasonable intent who found the scene personally destructive.
Causing breakdown or disassembly.
Catabolism is a destructive metabolism that involves the breakdown of molecules and release of energy.
Lossy; causing irreversible change.
Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not.
From Middle French destructif, from Latin destructivus, from past participle of destruere (“to tear down, destroy”) + -ivus.
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