44 entries under destructive topic. ×
| painful(adjective, hard, severe, difficult, tender) | |
| disastrous(adjective, awful, terrible, miserable, painful) | |
| evil(adjective, awful, black, atrocious, harmful) | |
| bad(adjective, unpleasant, awful, terrible, vicious) | |
| calamitous(adjective, severe, unpleasant, awful, terrible) | |
| catastrophic(adjective, awful, terrible, miserable, painful) | |
| baleful(adjective, dark, awful, terrible, gloomy) | |
| ruinous(adjective, awful, terrible, painful, suffering) | |
| cataclysmic(adjective, awful, terrible, miserable, painful) | |
| baneful(adjective, dark, gloomy, grim, harmful) | |
| hurtful(adjective, severe, tender, unpleasant, awful) | |
| harmful(adjective, severe, awful, terrible, dreadful) | |
| noxious(adjective, harmful, injurious, damaging, deadly) | |
| damaging(adjective, bad, severe, awful, terrible) | |
| deleterious(adjective, nasty, harmful, injurious, damaging) | |
| disadvantageous(adjective, injurious, damaging, arouse bad emotions) | |
| malignant(threatening, injurious, damaging, menacing) | |
| sinful(injurious, damaging) | |
| virulent(injurious, damaging) | |
| consumptive(adjective, bad, painful, harmful, injurious) |
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