ruinous Antonyms
Strongest:
- fair
- fortuitous
- promising
- providential
- lucky
- happy
- lucky
- fair
- fortuitous
- happy
- promising
- fortunate
- providential
- fortunate
Strong:
- bright
- hopeful
- upbeat
- encouraging
- rosy
- propitious
- golden
- propitious
- fluky
- heartening
- bright
- golden
- fluky
- auspicious
- encouraging
- heartening
- flukey
- upbeat
- optimistic
- hopeful
- rosy
- auspicious
- optimistic
- flukey
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Meaning of ruinous
ruinous (s)
extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin
causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
ruinous (a.)
Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project.
Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
Composed of, or consisting in, ruins.
ruinous Sentence Examples
- The ruinous hurricane winds shredded the coastal homes, leaving behind a trail of devastation.
- The company's reckless investments led to a ruinous financial collapse.
- The ruinous earthquake shattered the ancient city into rubble.
- The politician's scandalous affair proved ruinous for his career.
- The ruinous floodwaters inundated the village, forcing residents to evacuate.
- The ruinous wildfire consumed thousands of acres of forest, leaving behind a desolate wasteland.
- The government's economic policies had a ruinous impact on the nation's currency.
- The ruinous drought parched the crops, threatening the livelihoods of farmers.
- The ruinous ice storm crippled the power grid, plunging the city into darkness.
- The ruinous storm surge demolished the beachfront properties, rendering them uninhabitable.
FAQs About the word ruinous
extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin, causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruinCausing, or tending
catastrophic, unfortunate, fatal,disastrous, fateful, damning,destructive, calamitous, cataclysmic, ill-fated
fair, fortuitous, promising, providential, lucky, happy, lucky, fair, fortuitous,happy
The ruinous hurricane winds shredded the coastal homes, leaving behind a trail of devastation.
The company's reckless investments led to a ruinous financial collapse.
The ruinous earthquake shattered the ancient city into rubble.
The politician's scandalous affair proved ruinous for his career.
