Difference between Destructive and Cataclysmic

DESTRUCTIVE vs CATACLYSMIC: NOUN

One who destroys; a radical reformer; a destructionist.
One who or that which destroys; one who favors the destruction of anything for some ulterior purpose, as progress or public convenience; an overthrower of existing institutions, customs, or the like.

Causing break down or disassembly.
Causing destruction; damaging.
A process of reasoning which involves the denial of the first of a series of dependent propositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species of reductio ad absurdum.
See Distillation.
Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to
Designed or tending to disprove or discredit.
Causing or wreaking destruction; ruinous.
Causing destruction or much damage

Of or pertaining to a cataclysm; causing great destruction or upheaval; catastrophic.
Severely destructive

In logic, refuting; disproving: as, a destructive dilemma.
Causing destruction; having a tendency to destroy or the quality of destroying; ruinous; mischievous; pernicious; hurtful: with of or to before an object: as, a destructive fire; a destructive disposition; intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.

Blasting, Obscurant, Caustic, Negative, Obliterating, Vitriolic, Cataclysmic, Annihilating, Ravaging, Wasteful, Erosive, Ruinous, Corrosive, Devastating, Damaging

Earthshaking, Horrific, Unpredicted, Momentous, Unforeseeable, Epochal, Apocalyptic, Tremendous, Enormous, Massive, Disastrous, Devastating, Calamitous, Catastrophic, Destructive

Blasting, Obscurant, Caustic, Negative, Obliterating, Vitriolic, Cataclysmic, Annihilating, Ravaging, Wasteful, Erosive, Ruinous, Corrosive, Devastating, Damaging

Earthshaking, Horrific, Unpredicted, Momentous, Unforeseeable, Epochal, Apocalyptic, Tremendous, Enormous, Massive, Disastrous, Devastating, Calamitous, Catastrophic, Destructive

More of a downer is the destructive contrast.
It can be destructive and hostile as well.
This view of autism was obviously very destructive.
Our policies are crazily extravagant and very destructive.
What destructive elements of this environment have been caused by humans, and what destructive elements have been caused by nature?
Adhesion Properties of Coatings, Factors Affecting Adhesive Bond, Thermodynamics of Adhesion, Destructive Methods, Non Destructive Methods.
Analyzing portions of the data, Golfin discovered the importance of previous destructive behaviors as a common factor associated with further destructive behaviors, including suicide.
Terms of its destructive capabilities its destructive capabilities saw his relationship to the family in which were.
Users will not create or release computer viruses or engage in other destructive or potentially destructive programming activities.
Peak overloads which occur frequently may be cumulatively destructive, whileapt to be destructive.

The accretion flows and evolution of magnetic cataclysmic variables.
We are facing cataclysmic extinction event on this planet.
Altogether, the revenue shortfalls were nothing short of cataclysmic.
Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables Discovered in the Palomar Transient Factory.
Accretion Flow and Precession Phenomena in Cataclysmic Variables.
Cataclysmic judgments are unleashed against Judea and Jerusalem.
Able to block every attack except Cataclysmic Meteor.
California is torn apart by a cataclysmic quake.
That outcome would be cataclysmic for Saudi Arabia.
Cataclysmic events include earthquakes, floods, flash floods of surface water caused by heavy rains and runoff water, tornadoes or other cataclysmic phenomena of nature.