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# disruptive

adjective (disruptive, more disruptive, most disruptive)

«disruptive» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Causing trouble so that something cannot go on normally: disruptive behaviour in class. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruptive/#m1)
2. Changing the usual way things are done in a big way, like a new invention that changes a whole business (disruptive technology). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruptive/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruptive/#x1)
- The roadworks were very disruptive to the traffic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruptive/#x2)
- Talking loudly in the library is disruptive. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruptive/#x3)
- Snow was disruptive to the trains all week. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruptive/#x4)
- Phones changed the world as a disruptive technology. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruptive/#x5)
- Please don't be disruptive during the play. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruptive/#x6)

### 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](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruptive/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«disruptive» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/disruptive.html) on Mova free.