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
- 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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