adjective
- having the power to destroy completely or reduce to nothing
Usage: formal; often used in scientific or military contexts
Examples
- The nuclear weapon had annihilatory potential beyond imagination.
- Scientists studied the annihilatory effects of antimatter collisions.
- The hurricane’s annihilatory force leveled entire neighborhoods.
- Military strategists feared the enemy’s annihilatory capabilities.
- The virus showed annihilatory effects on the cell cultures.
- Philosophers debated the annihilatory nature of absolute nihilism.