adj. physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing"

adj. making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert

adj. wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire"

adj. causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking"

adj. causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"

adj. extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"

adj. (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"

adj. severely destructive; "cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a cataclysmic earthquake"

adj. wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire"

adj. causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war"

adj. spitefully sarcastic; "corrosive cristism"

adj. destructive to the spirit or soul; "soul-destroying labor"

adj. designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions; "negative criticism"

adj. wearing away by friction; "the erosive effects of waves on the shoreline"

adj. making undecipherable or imperceptible: "obliterating mists"; "an obscurant bank of clouds"

adj. ruinously destructive and wasting; "a ravaging illness"

adj. laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare

adj. expressing extreme contempt

adj. arrogantly insolent

adj. abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'"

adj. lacking due respect or dutifulness; "impious toward one's parents"; "an undutiful son"

adj. marked by casual disrespect; "a flip answer to serious question"; "the student was kept in for impudent behavior"

adj. not showing courteous respect

adj. causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war"

adj. spitefully sarcastic; "corrosive cristism"

adj. physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing"

adj. destructive to the spirit or soul; "soul-destroying labor"

adj. designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions; "negative criticism"

adj. wearing away by friction; "the erosive effects of waves on the shoreline"

adj. making undecipherable or imperceptible: "obliterating mists"; "an obscurant bank of clouds"

adj. ruinously destructive and wasting; "a ravaging illness"

adj. laying waste; "when wasteful war shall statues overturn"- Shakespeare

adj. emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good; "constructive criticism"