ruinous
Adjective Satellite
- extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin
- "a ruinous course of action"
- causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
- "a ruinous war"
Adj
- 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.
Adjective
- Causing destruction or severe damage; disastrous.
Examples
- A RUINOUS move can expose multiple triple-word scores for an opponent.
- They were forced to completely replace the roof at ruinous expense.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English ruynous, from Old French ruinos, ruineus, from Latin ruīnōsus. By surface analysis, ruin + -ous.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 7
ruinous: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordruinous: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ruinous: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
ruinous: valid Words With Friends Word