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ultradestructive

ultradestructive adjective: exceedingly destructive; of utmost destructiveness.

Adjective

ultradestructive (comparative more ultradestructive, superlative most ultradestructive)

  1. (rare) Exceedingly destructive; of utmost destructiveness.
    • When at last just one sporting journal in America shall come out and refuse to print the advertisements of the ultradestructive contrivances for killing fish and game, there are some of us who will feel that we have not lived wholly in vain.1921, The Saturday Evening Post, Volume 194, Saturday Evening Post Company, page 28
    • Add an ultradestructive countrywide bush war — and low-intensity conflict strategy specifically, according to its critics, "strikes at the very heart of the development process." — and the problems can begin to seem insuparable.1992, Gerald Hammond, A Complicated War, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 242

Forms of ultradestructive

comparativemore ultradestructive
superlativemost ultradestructive
alternative formultra-destructive

Origin of ultradestructive

From ultra- + destructive.

Questions about ultradestructive

What does ultradestructive mean?
Ultradestructive means exceedingly destructive; of utmost destructiveness.
What part of speech is ultradestructive?
Ultradestructive is an adjective.

Words near ultradestructive in the dictionary

  1. ultrademocratic
  2. ultradense
  3. ultradepleted
  4. ultradesirable
  5. ultradespotic
  6. ultradestructive
  7. ultradetailed
  8. ultradiafiltration
  9. ultradiafiltrations
  10. ultradian
  11. ultradifferentiability

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