1.
destructive; devastating
Causing severe damage, destruction, or disruption; having the power to destroy.
破壊的な威力。
Destructive power.
台風は破壊的な被害をもたらした。
The typhoon caused devastating damage.
破壊的な批判ばかりしていると、誰も意見を言わなくなる。
If you only make destructive criticisms, no one will speak up anymore.
2.
disruptive (in business/innovation context)
Radically changing or overturning an existing market, industry, or way of doing things.
破壊的イノベーションが業界を変えた。
Disruptive innovation changed the industry.
このサービスは破壊的な価格で市場に参入した。
This service entered the market at a disruptively low price.
破壊的な技術が従来のビジネスモデルを覆しつつある。
Disruptive technology is overturning traditional business models.
FORMS:
- Adverbial: 破壊的に (destructively)
ETYMOLOGY:
破壊 (destruction) + 的 (adjectival suffix)
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 破壊的な威力: destructive power
- 破壊的な影響: destructive influence
- 破壊的な行為: destructive act
BUSINESS USAGE:
破壊的イノベーション (disruptive innovation) refers to innovations that create new markets and eventually displace established competitors. This is a loanword concept from Clayton Christensen's theory.
CONTRAST:
- 建設的: constructive (opposite in sense 1)