Definition of RUINOUS

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.

Scrabble Score: 7

ruinous: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
ruinous: 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