adj
Meaning 1
Causing disruption or unrest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Children who exhibit disruptive behaviour may be expelled from school.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
disruptive
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Causing major change, as in a market.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business
Examples
- disruptive technologies
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 3
characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From disrupt + -ive. In the business sense popularized by Clayton Christensen and Joseph Bower, see 1995 citation.
Across languages
Translations
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: disruptiu — causing disrupt or unrest
- Catalan: disgregatiu — causing disrupt or unrest
- Chinese Mandarin: 分裂性的 — causing disrupt or unrest
- Chinese Mandarin: 扰动的 — causing disrupt or unrest
- Czech: rušivý — causing disrupt or unrest
- Czech: narušující — causing disrupt or unrest
- Czech: vyrušující — causing disrupt or unrest
- Czech: rozkladný — causing disrupt or unrest
- Czech: rozvratný — causing disrupt or unrest
- Dutch: storend — causing disrupt or unrest
- Dutch: onrustwekkend — causing disrupt or unrest
- Finnish: häiritsevä — causing disrupt or unrest
- French: perturbant — causing disrupt or unrest
- French: dérangeant — causing disrupt or unrest
- German: störend — causing disrupt or unrest
- Hungarian: bomlasztó — causing disrupt or unrest
- Hungarian: züllesztő — causing disrupt or unrest
- Hungarian: zavart keltő — causing disrupt or unrest
- Italian: frantumante — causing disrupt or unrest
- Italian: disgregante — causing disrupt or unrest
- Korean: 산만한 (sanmanhan) — causing disrupt or unrest
- Norwegian: splittende — causing disrupt or unrest
- Norwegian: nedbrytende — causing disrupt or unrest
- Polish: rozpraszający — causing disrupt or unrest
- Polish: zakłócający spokój — causing disrupt or unrest
- Portuguese: diruptivo — causing disrupt or unrest
- Portuguese: disruptivo — causing disrupt or unrest
- Russian: разруши́тельный (razrušítelʹnyj) — causing disrupt or unrest
- Russian: опустоши́тельный (opustošítelʹnyj) — causing disrupt or unrest
- Russian: подрывно́й (podryvnój) — causing disrupt or unrest
- Serbo-Croatian: disruptivan — causing disrupt or unrest
- Serbo-Croatian: razoran — causing disrupt or unrest
- Serbo-Croatian: uznemirujući — causing disrupt or unrest
- Serbo-Croatian: remetilački — causing disrupt or unrest
- Spanish: perturbante — causing disrupt or unrest
- Spanish: disruptivo — causing disrupt or unrest
- Turkish: rahatsız edici — causing disrupt or unrest
- German: disruptiv — causing major change
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