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ruinous

[roo-uh-nuhs]

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adjective

bringing or tending to bring ruin; destructive; disastrous: a ruinous war.

fallen into ruin; dilapidated: a ruinous house.

consisting of ruins: a ruinous city from antiquity.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English ruynouse < Latin ruīnōsus, equivalent to ruīn(a) ruin + -ōsus -ous

Related forms

ru·in·ous·ly, adverb

ru·in·ous·ness, noun

non·ru·in·ous, adjective

non·ru·in·ous·ly, adverb

non·ru·in·ous·ness, noun

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un·ru·in·ous, adjective

un·ru·in·ous·ly, adverb

un·ru·in·ous·ness, noun

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Synonyms
1. calamitous, ravaging, devastating, catastrophic.

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Example Sentences

Panetta has called those additional cuts potentially ruinous.

PPt can be an incredible tool when used correctly and ruinous if not.

Instead they were used to create a false financial system that is ruinous for our countries.

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Panetta has called those additional cuts potentially ruinous.

PPt can be an incredible tool when used correctly and ruinous if not.

Instead they were used to create a false financial system that is ruinous for our countries.

What happens in cargo tanks, on the other hand, involves more ruinous chemical and biological forces.

The downpour of the past two days has been ruinous to entertainment in the suburbs.

Given that cohort, presidential cowardice doesn't have ruinous effects.

If it snaps, a ruinous return to protectionism beckons.

Landlords here have complained for years that this city's rent-control laws are ruinous.

New prez even more clueless, hurtling us down ruinous paths.

But in many poor nations, a sudden influx of oil money has proven ruinous.

But naive faith in regulators' powers creates ruinous false security.

Any well-founded impression that the timing is governed by domestic political concerns would be ruinous.

They have been ruinous for the people whose homes and businesses have been damaged and destroyed.

Legislation to finally end their ruinous economic and political influence is long overdue.

Rather, they suffer from a gambling compulsion-a ruinous addiction to risk.

Flights are full, and prices of hotel rooms ruinous.

The question is why financial systems are so liable to turn foreign credit into ruinous busts.

We don't need ruinous short-term attempts to reduce the deficit that will plunge the economy into a double-dip recession.

If so, the fines and sanctions suffered by the auditing firm and its partners may be stiff but not ruinous.

Reading their testimony previously gave a sense of how ruinous the incident had been for them.

The way to avoid ruinous oil spills is to fix our national energy policy.

Notwithstanding the adulterations of this beverage and its ruinous sophistications in the great cities of.

There was also something about what might have been addiction, and that's a chronically ruinous thing.

Such a sharp fluctuation usually means a server is malfunctioning-a potentially ruinous problem.

Our system is an inducement for the guiltless to settle to avoid the ruinous expense of defending themselves.

However, business lobbies say it could be ruinous if the reactors do not reopen.

High fees and scams could make it an expensive if not ruinous investment.

Russians who lived through the ruinous inflation and currency woes of the early post-Soviet years paid a heavy price.

If there is a future conflict, it could escalate into mutually ruinous nuclear cataclysm.

Hope of profits evaporated after their ruinous attempt to take down the structure.

Last winter's reform of ruinous price subsidies was a hot potato that only he dared to touch.

It would involve enough revenue to forestall ruinous cuts in domestic programs.

But they were faced with something far more ruinous than unemployment.

The truly courageous took their stand then and there and often took the ruinous consequences.

They began by deciding not to charge the sort of ruinous prices that are prevalent in nearby restaurants.

To avoid being stuck with old stock-a ruinous prospect when prices are falling rapidly-panel-makers are now slashing margins.

The subtler trap, particularly for politicians, is that confidence and better news create ruinous complacency.

The result was financial ruin as the pilots simply voted themselves a huge slice of the pie throught ruinous wage increases.

By cutting a ruinous subsidy on paddy fertiliser, for example, he lost the votes of many peasant farmers.

In other words, participation in ruinous conflicts was largely.

Ultimately it is ruinous to the nation, draining it both morally and economically.

Of course, a one off rise in prices would be ruinous because these changes take time.

Unlike the ruinous socialist era, no one is jailed today for making an honest living.

Having a criminal record of course, is pretty ruinous to someone's prospect of being a good worker for life.

Both at home and abroad, the outgoing prime minister has opted for doing too much way too often, and to a ruinous effect.

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ruinous (ˈruːɪnəs)

—*adj*
	causing, tending to cause, or characterized by ruin or destruction: a ruinous course of action

'ruinously

—*adv*

'ruinousness

—n

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"Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles: it is an act quite easy to be contemplated, but in its sequel, it turns out to be a horrible jangle and confounding of all relations."

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