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Definition of Annihilative
1. Adjective. Wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction. "The guns opened a withering fire"
Similar to: Destructive
Derivative terms: Annihilate
Definition of Annihilative
1. a. Serving to annihilate; destructive.
Definition of Annihilative
1. Adjective. Serving to annihilate; destructive. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Annihilative
Literary usage of Annihilative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Protection of Woodlands Against Dangers Arising from Organic and by G. Kauschinger (1893)
"... The best annihilative measures consist in the laying down of decoy-stems here
and there (vide par. 61), and in duly peeling and burning the bark from ..."
2. Christian Prayer and General Laws: Being the Burney Prize Essay for the Year by George John Romanes (1874)
"... of concretes that they should not be mutually annihilative: if so, it follows
that no abstraction can contain two mutually annihilative concretes. ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1873)
"If so, and the cobra-poison, even though antagonistic and annihilative of the
action of the nerve-centres and peripheral distribution, ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1909)
"... to apply if such ownership and interest exist at the time of transportation,
the result would be to give to the statute a self- annihilative meaning. ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"... and men all on pause at such new Phoebus Apollo risen in his wrath;—the Victory
at Prag considered to be much more annihilative than it really was. ..."
6. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"... his wrath: — the Victory at Prag considered to be much more annihilative than
it really was. At London, Lord Holderness had his Tower-guns in readiness, ..."
7. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... and men all on pause at such new Phoebus Apollo risen in his wrath;—the Victory
at Prag considered to be much more annihilative than it really was. ..."
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