Ruinous

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  • adjective. Causing or apt to cause ruin; destructive.
  • adjective. Falling to ruin; dilapidated or decayed.
    • 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious.
  • adjective. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated.
  • adjective. Composed of, or consisting in, ruins.
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  • adjective. Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
  • adjective. extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin
    • Word Usage
    "A federal judge has determined that gas pipline manager El Paso did indeed limit natural gas supplies to California, resulting in ruinous prices, rolling blackouts, and smug Cato Institute flaks wagging their fingers at hot-tubbers and environmentalists."
    cross-reference
    ruined  
    Equivalent
    destructive  harmful  
    Form
    ruinously  ruinousness  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    absurd  deplorable  dilapidated  disastrous  disgraceful  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ablative  annihilative  ausgespielt  baleful  baneful  
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