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# disruptive

«disruptive» in Mova's school dictionary: **Causing trouble so that something cannot go on normally:…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (disruptive, more disruptive, most disruptive)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Causing trouble so that something cannot go on normally: disruptive behaviour in class. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruptive/#m2)

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

### In the corpora

- ["Lively" on a school report often means disruptive or hyperactive.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/15-behaviour-and-school-reports/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disruptive» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disruptive/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.