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English
Etymology
From ultra- + destructive.
Adjective
ultradestructive (comparative more ultradestructive, superlative most ultradestructive)
- (rare) Exceedingly destructive; of utmost destructiveness.
1921, The Saturday Evening Post, Volume 194, Saturday Evening Post Company, page 28:When at last just one sporting journal in America shall come out and refuse to print the advertisements of the ultradestructive contrivances for killing fish and game, there are some of us who will feel that we have not lived wholly in vain.
1921, Gerald Hammond, The Saturday Evening Post, Volume 194, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 242:Add an ultradestructive countrywide bush war — and low-intensity conflict strategy specifically, according to its critics, "strikes at the very heart of the development process." — and the problems can can begin to seem inseparable.
1986, United States. Air Force, Military Planning in the Twentieth Century: Proceedings of the Eleventh Military History Symposium, 10-12 October 1984, Office of Air Force History, U.S. Air Force, page 412:The rise of ultradestructive weapons (biological and chemical as well as nuclear) has jeopardized life.