Difference between Destructive and Devastating

DESTRUCTIVE vs DEVASTATING: 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 destruction or much damage
Designed or tending to disprove or discredit.
Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to
See Distillation.
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.
Causing destruction; damaging.
Causing break down or disassembly.
Causing or wreaking destruction; ruinous.

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.
In logic, refuting; disproving: as, a destructive dilemma.

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

Horrendous, Horrifying, Frightening, Debilitating, Terrible, Crippling, Horrific, Disastrous, Catastrophic, Annihilative, Disrespectful, Withering, Annihilating, Crushing, Destructive

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

Horrendous, Horrifying, Frightening, Debilitating, Terrible, Crippling, Horrific, Disastrous, Catastrophic, Annihilative, Disrespectful, Withering, Annihilating, Crushing, 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.