Meanings
adjectivedevastative (comparative more devastative, superlative most devastative)
comparative more devastative · superlative most devastative
- devastating; highly destructive
It promises, with what prospect of success its own figures must witness, to gather up the supply of water now running to waste and increasing the devastative power of floods, together with the excess of the spring and fall discharge […]
1884, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 69, page 619
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devastative. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/devastative
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