In the case of a e.g. "New Widget" modal popup, I'm quite comfortable with a "cancel" button that means e.g. "this will discard whatever you typed / stopping th

In the case of a e.g. "New Widget" modal popup, I'm quite comfortable with a "cancel" button that means e.g. "this will discard whatever you typed / stopping the creation of a new widget". That kind of cancel button certainly results in lost information, and in some sense it is "destructive". But isn't "destructive" of data that we expect to persist. I typically use the word in the latter sense. Hopefully people have a decent shared understanding of the term "destructive" or this is going to be very confusing for all involved. Is there a clear shared understanding? I don't run UX testing.