disruptive
adjective (disruptive, more disruptive, most disruptive)
Everyday
- Causing trouble so that something cannot go on normally: disruptive behaviour in class. tree →
- Changing the usual way things are done in a big way, like a new invention that changes a whole business (disruptive technology). tree →
In the lessons
At school a «disruptive» pupil stops others from learning; in news, storms or strikes are disruptive to travel; in business, a disruptive idea changes everything. Phrases: «disruptive behaviour», «be disruptive to», «highly disruptive».
Examples
- The teacher moved the disruptive boy to the front. tree →
- The roadworks were very disruptive to the traffic. tree →
- Talking loudly in the library is disruptive. tree →
- Snow was disruptive to the trains all week. tree →
- Phones changed the world as a disruptive technology. tree →
- Please don't be disruptive during the play. tree →
Note
From the verb «disrupt» (break into or stop something). Noun: disruption. Opposite: calm, orderly, well-behaved. Spelling: dis-rupt-ive.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «disruptive» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «disruptive» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/disruptive/