Ruinous Definition

ro͝oə-nəs
adjective
Bringing or tending to bring ruin; very destructive or harmful; disastrous.
Ruinous floods.
Webster's New World
Falling or fallen into ruin; dilapidated; decayed.
Webster's New World
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Ruinous Sentence Examples

  • The results were ruinous to France.

  • It was finally destroyed by Glendower, was a "ruinous building" when seen by Leland (1536) and has since wholly disappeared.

  • Iraq and Iran blame each other for their ruinous war and each sees the outcome as a victory.

  • But on the whole there was no ruinous devastation of the land.

  • Briihl must therefore be held wholly responsible for the ruinous policy which destroyed the position of Saxony in Germany between 1733 and 1763; for the mistaken ambition which led Frederick Augustus II.

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