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devastative

devastative adjective: devastating; highly destructive.

Adjective

devastative (comparative more devastative, superlative most devastative)

  1. devastating; highly destructive
    • It promises, with what prospect of success its own figures must witness, to gather up the supply of water now running to waste and increasing the devastative power of floods, together with the excess of the spring and fall discharge […]1884, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 69, page 619

Forms of devastative

comparativemore devastative
superlativemost devastative

Origin of devastative

From devastate + -ive.

Questions about devastative

What does devastative mean?
Devastative means devastating; highly destructive.
What part of speech is devastative?
Devastative is an adjective.

Words near devastative in the dictionary

  1. devastatingly
  2. devastatingness
  3. devastation
  4. devastational
  5. devastations
  6. devastative
  7. devastator
  8. devastators
  9. devastavit
  10. devastavits
  11. devasted

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