1.
destructive; devastating
Causing severe damage, destruction, or disruption; having the power to destroy.
2.
disruptive (in business/innovation context)
Radically changing or overturning an existing market, industry, or way of doing things.
FORMS:
- Adverbial: 破壊的に (destructively)
ETYMOLOGY:
破壊 (destruction) + 的 (adjectival suffix)
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
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)