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Definition of Ruinous
1. Adjective. Extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin. "A ruinous course of action"
2. Adjective. Causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin. "A ruinous war"
Definition of Ruinous
1. a. Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project.
Definition of Ruinous
1. Adjective. Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ruinous
1. destructive [adj] - See also: destructive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ruinous
Literary usage of Ruinous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1808)
"... ai Douglas—ruinous State of the Harbour—An awful Calamity— Reflexions.
The entrance of the harbour is narrow and dangerous, being fenced on each fide by ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... upon commercial transactions and gold might have stayed the ruinous rise in
prices and vastly reduced the war outlay, deliberately committed the country ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham, Thomas Wilde Truro (1850)
"... and that at an expense far less than he will incur if he continue the ruinous
system in which he appears to have been involved. STEWART v. FORBES. ..."
4. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"The supposed ruinous effect of competition to be judged from this point of view,
455 — Sec. 6. The legislative problems. Federal regulation called for ..."
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