destructively
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
in a destructive manner: in a way that causes destruction
Example Sentences
- "In one locality, on our journey, we saw some horses that had been born and reared on top of the mountains, above the range of running water, and consequently they had never drank that fluid in their lives, but had been always accustomed to quenching their thirst by eating dew-laden or shower-wetted leaves. And now it was destructively funny to see them sniff suspiciously at a pail of water, and then put in their noses and try to take a bite out of the fluid, as if it were a solid. Finding it liquid, they would snatch away their heads and fall to trembling, snorting and showing other evidences of fright. When they became convinced at last that the water was friendly and harmless, they thrust in their noses up to their eyes, brought out a mouthful of water, and proceeded to chew it complacently.https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Roughing_It/Chapter_LXXVI"
- "The strength of man was not given to be used destructively but that he might build a temple worthy to be the dwelling place of the Great Architect of the universe."
- "Though he intends it destructively, Rothbard is right that there are relations between the millennial hope for justice he archly calls KGE—Kingdom of God on Earth—and communism."
Etymology
Etymology tree English destructive Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English destructively From destructive + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more destructively (comparative)
most destructively (superlative)