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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

disruptive 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

32 Moby Thesaurus words for "disruptive": 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