Antonyms for devastating


Grammar : Adj
Spell : dev-uh-stey-ting
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛv əˌsteɪ tɪŋ


Definition of devastating

Origin :
  • 1630s, present participle adjective from devastate. Trivial use by 1889.
  • adj causing devastation
  • adj trenchant
Example sentences :
  • If people seldom cry it has a devastating effect on their appearance when they do.
  • Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
  • Israel was the evil one for whose sin they suffered this devastating plague.
  • Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine
  • Remote as many of these jungles are, the plumage hunter is devastating them already.
  • Extract from : « Conservation Reader » by Harold W. Fairbanks
  • Sometimes it was intermittent, and came down in devastating floods.
  • Extract from : « Freaks on the Fells » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • The plague was not in Bombay then, but it is devastating the city now.
  • Extract from : « Following the Equator, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • That is a sample of the character of that devastating march.
  • Extract from : « Following the Equator, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • No one who had not seen it could imagine the devastating fury of that storm.
  • Extract from : « The Ivory Child » by H. Rider Haggard
  • The march inland of the rabbit was like that of a devastating army.
  • Extract from : « Peeps At Many Lands: Australia » by Frank Fox
  • For them it is entertainment, and as such it is devastating.
  • Extract from : « Psychology and Social Sanity » by Hugo Mnsterberg
  • At the worst, if they do lose me, its not a devastating loss.
  • Extract from : « Adrienne Toner » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Synonyms for devastating

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