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disruptive definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood" [syn: disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent]

Merriam Webster's

adjective see disrupt

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disruptive Dis*rupt"ive, a. Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. --Nichol.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

To be disruptive means to prevent something from continuing or operating in a normal way. Alcohol can produce violent, disruptive behavior... ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

ablative, bad, biodegradable, corrosive, decomposable, decomposing, degradable, dilapidated, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disorderly, erosive, improper, misbehaving, moldering, naughty, not respectable, off-base, out-of-line, ravaged, resolvent, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, ruinous, separative, solvent, unbehaving, worn