Ruinous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Causing or apt to cause ruin; destructive.
  • adj. Falling to ruin; dilapidated or decayed.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious.
  • adj. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated.
  • adj. Composed of, or consisting in, ruins.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Fallen to ruin; decayed; dilapidated.
  • Composed of ruins; consisting in ruins.
  • Destructive; baneful; pernicious; bringing or tending to bring ruin.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
  • adj. extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin
    • Equivalent
    destructive    harmful   
    Cross Reference
    ruined   
    Form
    ruinously    ruinousness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    dilapidated    wasteful    demolished    pernicious    destructive    mischievous    decayed    baneful    ruined   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    disastrous    disgraceful    deplorable    injurious    humiliate    dilapidated    unnecessary    fatal    unfair    futile   
     
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