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ruinous 音标拼音: [r'uənəs] a. 破坏性的,招致毁灭的,零落的 破坏性的,招致毁灭的,零落的 ruinous adj 1: extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; " a catastrophic depression"; " catastrophic illness"; " a ruinous course of action" [ synonym: { catastrophic}, { ruinous}] 2: causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; " the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; " the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; " a ruinous war" [ synonym: { blasting}, { ruinous}] Ruinous \ Ru" in* ous\, a. [ L. ruinosus: cf. F. ruineux. See { Ruin}.] 1. Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project. [ 1913 Webster] After a night of storm so ruinous. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Composed of, or consisting in, ruins. [ 1913 Webster] Behold, Damascus . . . shall be a ruinous heap. -- Isa. xvii. 1. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Dilapidated; decayed; demolished; pernicious; destructive; baneful; wasteful; mischievous. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Ru" in* ous* ly}, adv. -- { Ru" in* ous* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 158 Moby Thesaurus words for " ruinous": ablative, annihilative, ausgespielt, baleful, baneful, bankrupt, battered, beat- up, beaten up, bedraggled, biodegradable, black, blasted, blighted, blowzy, broken, broken- down, calamitous, careless, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, chintzy, consuming, consumptive, corrosive, crippling, crumbling, deadly, decomposable, decomposing, decrepit, degradable, deleterious, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, derelict, desolated, desolating, destroyed, destroying, destructive, devastated, devastating, dilapidated, dire, disastrous, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, done for, done in, doomful, down- and- out, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dusty, erosive, fallen, fatal, fateful, finished, fratricidal, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fusty, gone to pot, gone to seed, grievous, grubby, harmful, in rags, in ruins, informal, injurious, internecine, irremediable, kaput, loose, lumpen, messy, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moss- grown, moth- eaten, mussy, musty, nasty, negligent, nihilist, nihilistic, noxious, overthrown, pernicious, poisonous, poky, ragged, raggedy, ramshackle, ravaged, ravaging, resolvent, ruined, ruining, run- down, rusty, scraggly, seedy, self- destructive, separative, shabby, shattering, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slummy, sluttish, solvent, sordid, spoiled, squalid, stale, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, tacky, tattered, time- scarred, timeworn, tottery, toxic, tragic, tumbledown, undone, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasted, wasteful, wasting, withering, worn, wrecked, wreckful
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