⚠️ Harmful to character 🦴 Causing damage

deformative

8.9

Harming a person's character or behaviour

adjective
/dɪˈfɔːrmətɪv/

Formal

: deformativo

The deformative effects of the scandal severely damaged her reputation.

Examples

Exposure to such a deformative environment can corrupt even the strongest character.
His deformative influence on the team led to a decline in their morale.
So, you know, they get deformative and they die from a cancer.
Yes, I can find instances of the modulatory, universally deformative culture of control in contemporary literary productions.

Academic text (1995)

Synonyms

perversive

vsdeformative

9.9

Making people do wrong things and lose good values

causes harm directly by damaging character and reputation

Antonyms

beneficial

138 3.4

Making something better or producing a good result

uplifting

1 4.1

A rise of land, water, or air to a higher level

How Corrupting

deformative

Formal

8.9

corrupting

1 6.7

harmful

161 2.6

harmless

231 1.0

Surface Forms

deformative positive

Morphology

deformative = deform (semi-transparent) = de + form + ative

The adjective is formed from 'deform' + '-ative', but the sense 'harm or corruption to character/morals' is a metaphorical extension from physical disfigurement and may not be obvious to all learners.

Etymology

Deformative comes from the parts de- meaning 'remove' or 'away' and form meaning 'shape', and it is related to the verb deform. So a deformative influence is something that 'takes away' a good shape or condition, for example spoiling a person's character or reputation.