'Ruinous' definitions:
Definition of 'ruinous'
From: WordNet
adjective
Extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action" [syn: catastrophic, ruinous]
adjective
Causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war" [syn: blasting, ruinous]
Definition of 'Ruinous'
From: GCIDE
- Ruinous \Ru"in*ous\, a. [L. ruinosus: cf. F. ruineux. See Ruin.]
- 1. Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project. [1913 Webster]
- After a night of storm so ruinous. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Composed of, or consisting in, ruins. [1913 Webster]
- Behold, Damascus . . . shall be a ruinous heap. --Isa. xvii. 1. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Dilapidated; decayed; demolished; pernicious; destructive; baneful; wasteful; mischievous. [1913 Webster] -- {Ru"in*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Ru"in*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ruinous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablative,
- annihilative,
- ausgespielt,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- bankrupt,
- battered,
- beat-up,
- beaten up,
- bedraggled,
- biodegradable,
- black,
- blasted,
- blighted,
- blowzy,
- broken,
- broken-down,
- calamitous,
- careless,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- chintzy,
- consuming,
- consumptive,
- corrosive,
- crippling,
- crumbling,
- deadly,
- decomposable,
- decomposing,
- decrepit,
- degradable,
- deleterious,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- derelict,
- desolated,
- desolating,
- destroyed,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- devastated,
- devastating,
- dilapidated,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- disintegrable,
- disintegrated,
- disintegrating,
- disintegrative,
- disjunctive,
- disruptive,
- done for,
- done in,
- doomful,
- down-and-out,
- drabbletailed,
- draggled,
- draggletailed,
- dusty,
- erosive,
- fallen,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- finished,
- fratricidal,
- frowzy,
- frumpish,
- frumpy,
- fusty,
- gone to pot,
- gone to seed,
- grievous,
- grubby,
- harmful,
- in rags,
- in ruins,
- informal,
- injurious,
- internecine,
- irremediable,
- kaput,
- loose,
- lumpen,
- messy,
- mildewed,
- moldering,
- moldy,
- moss-grown,
- moth-eaten,
- mussy,
- musty,
- nasty,
- negligent,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- noxious,
- overthrown,
- pernicious,
- poisonous,
- poky,
- ragged,
- raggedy,
- ramshackle,
- ravaged,
- ravaging,
- resolvent,
- ruined,
- ruining,
- run-down,
- rusty,
- scraggly,
- seedy,
- self-destructive,
- separative,
- shabby,
- shattering,
- shoddy,
- slack,
- slatternly,
- slipshod,
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- slummy,
- sluttish,
- solvent,
- sordid,
- spoiled,
- squalid,
- stale,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- tacky,
- tattered,
- time-scarred,
- timeworn,
- tottery,
- toxic,
- tragic,
- tumbledown,
- undone,
- unkempt,
- unneat,
- unsightly,
- untidy,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- wasted,
- wasteful,
- wasting,
- withering,
- worn,
- wrecked,
- wreckful