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disruptive
What does disruptive mean?
disruptive (adjective): characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use disruptive in a sentence?
- It was pretty disruptive. (Tatoeba sentence #5744877 by CM, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce disruptive?
/dɪsˈɹʌptɪv/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does disruptive come from?
From disrupt + -ive.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of disruptive?
Words related to disruptive
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “disruptive” mean?
painstaking and careful not to miss or omit any detail
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characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
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boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable
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clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
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legitimate
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artificial
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tumultuous
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regulatory
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