disruptive Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination
    tumultuous; troubled; turbulent; riotous.
    • effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive
    • riotous times
    • these troubled areas
    • the tumultuous years of his administration
    • a turbulent and unruly childhood

WordNet


Dis*rupt"ive adjective
Definitions
  1. Causing, or tending to cause, disruption; caused by disruption; breaking through; bursting; as, the disruptive discharge of an electrical battery. Nichol.

Webster 1913