Dictionary Definition
ruinous adj
1 extremely harmful; bringing physical or
financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic
illness"; "a ruinous course of action" [syn: catastrophic]
2 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]
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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