Disastrous vs. Destructive — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Disastrous and Destructive
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Disastrous
Accompanied by or causing distress or disaster; calamitous.
Destructive
Causing or wreaking destruction; ruinous
A destructive act.
A policy that is destructive to the economy.
Disastrous
Extremely bad; terrible
A disastrous report card.
Destructive
Designed or tending to disprove or discredit
Destructive criticism.
Disastrous
Of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
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Destructive
Causing destruction; damaging.
Disastrous
Foreboding disaster; ill-omened.
Destructive
Causing breakdown or disassembly.
Catabolism is a destructive metabolism that involves the breakdown of molecules and release of energy.
Disastrous
Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding.
The moonIn dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds.
Destructive
(computing) Lossy; causing irreversible change.
Blurring an image is a destructive operation, but rotating an image is not.
Disastrous
Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; ending in utter failure or ruin; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking.
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances.
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.
Time's destructive power.
Disastrous
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin;
The stock market crashed on Black Friday
A calamitous defeat
The battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign
Such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it
A fateful error
Destructive
One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
Destructive
Causing destruction or much damage;
A policy that is destructive to the economy
Destructive criticism
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