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Synonyms for disruptive in English

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disruptive:
- troubled; turbulent; tumultuous; disruptive; riotous
disrupt:
- divide; break up; disrupt; disunite; interrupt; cut off

English

Detailed Synonyms for disruptive in English

disruptive:

disruptive adj

disruptive

– characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination ¹
troubled; turbulent; tumultuous; disruptive; riotous
– characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination ¹
- troubled adj
  - these troubled areas¹
- turbulent adj
  - a turbulent and unruly childhood¹
- tumultuous adj
  - the tumultuous years of his administration¹
- disruptive adj
  - effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive¹
- riotous adj
  - riotous times¹

Alternate Synonyms for "disruptive":

riotous; troubled; tumultuous; turbulent; unquiet

Related Definitions for "disruptive":

characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination¹
- effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive¹

disrupt:

disrupt verb

disrupt
to divide; to break up; disrupt; disunite
- divide verb (divides, divided, dividing)
- break up verb (breaks up, broke up, breaking up)
- disrupt verb
- disunite verb
disrupt

– interfere in someone else's activity ¹
to interrupt; disrupt
– interfere in someone else's activity ¹
- interrupt verb (interrupts, interrupted, interrupting)
  - Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone¹
- disrupt verb
disrupt

– throw into disorder ¹
disrupt
– throw into disorder ¹
- disrupt verb
  - This event disrupted the orderly process¹
disrupt

– make a break in ¹
to interrupt; to cut off; to break up; disrupt
– make a break in ¹
- interrupt verb (interrupts, interrupted, interrupting)
  - We interrupt the program for the following messages¹
- cut off verb (cuts off, cut off, cutting off)
- break up verb (breaks up, broke up, breaking up)
- disrupt verb

Related Words for "disrupt":

disrupting, disrupted, disruptive

Alternate Synonyms for "disrupt":

interrupt; break up; cut off; break; break off; discontinue; stop
chime in; cut in; put in; butt in; chisel in; barge in; break in

Related Definitions for "disrupt":

interfere in someone else's activity¹
throw into disorder¹
- This event disrupted the orderly process¹
make a break in¹

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University