ruinous
Meaning of ruinous
adjective
- Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous
- Extremely costly; so expensive as to cause financial ruin.
They were forced to completely replace the roof at ruinous expense.
- Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
Information about ruinous
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of ruinous
ru-inous
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- ruinous is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
ruinous synonyms
Meaning catastrophic:
Meaning blasting:
Anagrams of ruinous
Words that rhyme with ruinous
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