self-destructive
harmful, injurious, or destructive to oneself: His constant arguing with the boss shows he's a self-destructive person.
reflecting or exhibiting suicidal desires or drives: Careless driving may be a self-destructive tendency.
Origin of self-destructive
1Other words from self-destructive
- self-de·struc·tive·ly, adverb
Words Nearby self-destructive
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use self-destructive in a sentence
Anger often manifests in withholders as another self-destructive but more socially acceptable feeling or behavior, like anxiety.
To break her self-destructive cycle and heal, she decides to hike 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail solo.
Exclusive: The Making of Reese Witherspoon’s Golden Globe-Nominated ‘Wild’ | Marlow Stern | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSo they do what they are told to do, even when the path is self-destructive.
College Football Fattens Players Up and Then Abandons Them | Evin Demirel | October 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNorquist did, though, candidly note that, “there are outliers always willing to give a self-destructive quotation.”
Indeed, if this was self-destructive, then provoking another stand-off—during an election year, no less—would be suicidal.
This type of battery is very rugged, and its combinations are not self-destructive.
ABC of Electricity | William Henry MeadowcroftHold the Buddhist to his creed and insist that such logic destroys itself, and he triumphs smilingly, 'self-destructive!
The Religions of Japan | William Elliot GriffisWhen we contemplate such arrangements as exist in these two guns, it must be evident that they are both self-destructive.
Gunnery in 1858 | William GreenerA thing self-created, self-destructive: then of human life––nothingness.
A Breath of Prairie and other stories | Will LillibridgeIt had been to her what its sting is to the bee—a thing which if once used in self-defence is self-destructive.
Mistress Wilding | Rafael Sabatini
Browse