ruinous
IPA: rˈuʌnʌs
adjective
- Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous
- Extremely costly; so expensive as to cause financial ruin.
- Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
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Examples of "ruinous" in Sentences
- The financial debt is ruinous.
- But the tenth was ruinous for Houston.
- Most of the eastern corner is ruinous.
- The barracks are presently roofless and ruinous.
- The project was failed and brought ruinous results.
- Of course I understand that the emissions are ruinous.
- The building, however, was old and in a ruinous state.
- The castle was reported to be in a ruinous condition in 1720.
- In 1757, the church was described as ruinous and it was rebuilt.
- As a result, the condition of the remaining structures is quite ruinous.