NONDESTRUCTIVE Antonyms

• (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury

• designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

• involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• causing destruction or much damage

• (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury

• making light of

• wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction

• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination

• causing or capable of causing harm

• harmful to living things

• characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features

• expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial

• not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition

• reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive

• a reply of denial

• a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed

• having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant

• less than zero

• designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

• having a negative charge

• involving disadvantage or harm

• vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent

• extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin

• causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin