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Destructive vs Wasteful - What's the difference?

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Destructive is a related term of wasteful.


As adjectives the difference between destructive and wasteful

is that destructive is causing destruction; damaging while wasteful is inclined to waste or squander money or resources.

destructive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing destruction; damaging.
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  • Causing breakdown or disassembly.
    • Catabolism is a destructive metabolism which involves the break down of molecules and release of energy.

    Synonyms

    * calamitous * catastrophic * devastating * disastrous * eradicative * harmful * pernicious * ruinous * wrackful * wreckful

    Antonyms

    * constructive * nondestructive * productive

    Related terms

    * destruct * destruction * destructively * destructiveness * destructivity

    wasteful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inclined to waste or squander money or resources.
  • (obsolete) Uninhabited, desolate.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
    • Shortly unto the wastefull woods she came, / Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew [...].

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