adj
Meaning 1
Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ruinous
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/ˈɹuː.ɪnəs/
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adj
Meaning 2
Extremely costly; so expensive as to cause financial ruin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- They were forced to completely replace the roof at ruinous expense.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 4
causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: blasting
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 5
extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a catastrophic depression
- catastrophic illness
- a ruinous course of action
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: catastrophic
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle English ruynous, from Old French ruinos, ruineus, from Latin ruīnōsus. By surface analysis, ruin + -ous.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: ruinosu — destructive
- Bulgarian: разрушителен (razrušitelen) — destructive
- Bulgarian: гибелен (gibelen) — destructive
- Catalan: ruïnós — destructive
- French: ruineux — destructive
- Hindi: नाशक (nāśak) — destructive
- Italian: rovinoso — destructive
- Latin: calamitōsus — destructive
- Latin: perniciosus — destructive
- Norman: ruinneux — destructive
- Portuguese: ruinoso — destructive
- Sardinian: arruinósu — destructive
- Scottish Gaelic: sgriosail — destructive
- Spanish: ruinoso — destructive
- Venetan: rovinóxo — destructive
- Spanish: ruinoso — dilapidated