ruinous
pronunciation
How to pronounce ruinous in British English:
UK [ˈru:ɪnəs]
How to pronounce ruinous in American English:
US [ˈruənəs]
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- Adjective:
- extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin
- causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin
Word Origin
- ruinous (adj.)
- late 14c., "going to ruin," from Old French ruinos (Modern French ruineux) or directly from Latin ruinosus "tumbling down, going to ruin," from ruina (see ruin (n.)). Meaning "causing ruin" is from mid-15c. Related: Ruinously.
Example
- 1. It might be polite , but it is also ruinous .
- 2. The cost of these captive markets is ruinous .
- 3. The lethargic pace has been ruinous for new orleans and its hard-hit suburbs .
- 4. Many of myanmar 's generals have built fortunes on this kind of ruinous exploitation .
- 5. Some economists believe that the light taxation of land in japan contributed to its ruinous asset-price bubble in the 1980s .