Usually means: Challenging norms, innovative, breakthrough impact.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word Disruptive:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. disruptive: Merriam-Webster
  2. disruptive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disruptive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disruptive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disruptive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Disruptive, disruptive: Wordnik
  7. disruptive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disruptive: Wiktionary
  9. disruptive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disruptive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disruptive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. disruptive: Dictionary.com
  13. disruptive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Disruptive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Disruptive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. disruptive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. disruptive: Rhymezone
  18. disruptive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. disruptive: FreeDictionary.org
  20. disruptive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. disruptive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. disruptive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disruptive: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. disruptive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. disruptive: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (disruptive)

▸ adjective:  Causing disruption or unrest.
▸ adjective:  (business) Causing major change, as in a market.

Similar:
troubled, turbulent, unquiet, tumultuous, riotous, troublemaking, distortive, mischievous, factious, detrimental, more...

Opposite:
disorderly, disruptive behavior

Phrases:
disruptive selection, disruptive technology, disruptive innovation, disruptive discharge, disruptive pattern, more...

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Similar:
troubled, turbulent, unquiet, tumultuous, riotous, troublemaking, distortive, mischievous, factious, detrimental, more...

Opposite:
disorderly, disruptive behavior

Phrases:
disruptive selection, disruptive technology, disruptive innovation, disruptive discharge, disruptive pattern, disruptive discharges, disruptive behavior disorders, Disruptive Pattern Material, more...

Colors:
    red,     neon green,     electric blue,     hot pink,     bright orange, more...



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