Extirpative
11fatal — fa·tal adj 1: causing failure of a legal claim or cause of action a fatal defect in the proceedings W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel 2: making something (as a contract) invalid or unenforceable there is a fatal indefiniteness with the result that… …
12detrimental — I adjective adverse, afflicting, bad, corrupting, crippling, damaging, deleterious, destructive, disadvantageous, disastrous, discommodious, distressing, disturbing, dreadful, extirpative, fulsome, grievous, harmful, hindering, hurtful, ill… …
13dire — I adjective annihilative, appalling, awful, baleful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, catastrophical, deadly, demolishing, destroying, destructive, devastating, direful, disastrous, dismal, dreaded, dreadful, eradicative, exterminative,… …
14disastrous — I adjective all destroying, annihilative, appalling, bad, baneful, blighting, calamitosus, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, crushing, damaging, deadly, deleterious, demolishing, desolating, destroying, destructive, detrimental …
15pernicious — I adjective adverse, affliciting, baleful, baneful, brutal, calamitous, catastrophic, corrosive, crippling, cruel, damaging, deadly, death bringing, death dealing, deathful, deathly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, devouring, diabolic,… …
16eradicative — Synonyms and related words: all consuming, all devouring, annihilative, arousing, educible, eductive, elicitory, evocative, exacting, exactive, exterminatory, extirpative, extirpatory, extortionary, extortionate, extortive, extractive, uprooting …
17harmful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. injurious, hurtful. See disease, badness. Ant., harmless, safe. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. injurious, detrimental, hurtful, noxious, evil, mischievous, ruinous, malefic, demolitionary, internecine …
18destructive — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Unfavorable] Syn. adverse, negative, not constructive; see unfavorable 2 . 2. [Destroying] Syn. ruinous, noxious, baneful, pestiferous, noisome, cancerous, fatal, deleterious, pestilential, catastrophic, calamitous,… …
19destructive — a. 1. Ruinous, pernicious, deleterious, baleful, mischievous, fatal, deadly. 2. [With of.] Extirpative, eradicative, annihilatory …
20destructive — adj 1. ruinous, disastrous, dire, dreadful, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic; devastating, wasting, ravaging; disruptive, troublesome, distracting, obstreperous, unruly, subversive; annihila tive, eradicative, extirpative, incendiary,… …
