Destructive
Destructive adjective - Causing or tending to cause destruction.
Ruthless and destructive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ruthless" instead an adjective "Destructive".
Ruthless
Ruthless adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.
Destructive and ruthless are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Destructive" instead an adjective "Ruthless".
Nearby Words: ruthlessly, ruth
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- mortal and destructive
- mortal and ruthless
- brutal and destructive
- brutal and ruthless
- savage and destructive
- savage and ruthless
- violent and destructive
- violent and ruthless
- vicious and destructive
- vicious and ruthless
- fierce and destructive
- fierce and ruthless
- terrible and destructive
- terrible and ruthless
Both words in one sentence
- The Dragon - Admiral Akainu, the most ruthless and destructive officer, but also the most effective.
Source: Five Bad Band / Anime - Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Jude, starts of a sweet but troubled kid who eventually slides down the slope into being a ruthless and destructive leader of the Liberation Militia.
Source: Literature / Noughts & Crosses - In Toriko, the three Great Gourmet Prisons hold the most ruthless and destructive criminals sentenced for life and beasts deemed too dangerous for the human world.
Source: Denied Food as Punishment
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