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ruinous
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
Learner's definition of RUINOUS
formal
1
: causing or likely to cause damage or destruction破坏性的；毁灭性的
- Smoking is ruinous [=(more commonly) dangerous, hazardous] to your health.吸烟对健康的危害极大。
- ruinous effects/consequences灾难性的影响/后果
2
: costing far too much money耗资巨大的；极其昂贵的
- ruinous price increases无法承受的价格上涨
3
chiefly British, formal : falling apart : badly damaged严重受损的；毁坏了的
- a ruinous building严重受损的建筑物
- The house has fallen into a ruinous state.这房子已破败不堪。
— ruinously
adverb- Funding the project would be ruinously expensive.资助这个项目会耗资无数。
ruinously adverb
ruinousness noun
Synonyms
Example Sentences
The house has fallen into a ruinous state. a ruinous miscalculation of the financial markets left them bankrupt
Recent Examples on the Web In 1891, as populists agitated to flood the country’s monetary system with silver—to inflate away the debt burden on Western and Southern Democrats—Cleveland issued an open letter warning of the policy’s potentially ruinous effects. 
Troy Senik, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022 New national test results show the ruinous effects of the pandemic on students. Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022 Such losses can be ruinous for families, which face food insecurity as a result, The Washington Post reported last year. Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 28 July 2022 The too-good-to-be-sustainable price point proved to be economically ruinous, and eventually in early 2020, Helios and Matheson Analytics, which owned MoviePass, filed for bankruptcy after running out of cash. Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 22 Aug. 2022 Cantankerous civil servants wearing dental braces might protest that being forced to display their teeth subjected them to psychologically ruinous workplace humiliation. Joe Queenan, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022 But a clash is brewing over what many take as a potentially ruinous threat to that quest. Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 21 July 2022 And yet, Musk welcoming the barbarians back inside the gates could prove financially ruinous. Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 May 2022 Lopez pleaded guilty to robbing a male jogger that same night to avoid a more ruinous rape conviction. al, 25 July 2022 See More
Troy Senik, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2022 New national test results show the ruinous effects of the pandemic on students. Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2022 Such losses can be ruinous for families, which face food insecurity as a result, The Washington Post reported last year. Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 28 July 2022 The too-good-to-be-sustainable price point proved to be economically ruinous, and eventually in early 2020, Helios and Matheson Analytics, which owned MoviePass, filed for bankruptcy after running out of cash. Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 22 Aug. 2022 Cantankerous civil servants wearing dental braces might protest that being forced to display their teeth subjected them to psychologically ruinous workplace humiliation. Joe Queenan, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2022 But a clash is brewing over what many take as a potentially ruinous threat to that quest. Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 21 July 2022 And yet, Musk welcoming the barbarians back inside the gates could prove financially ruinous. Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 May 2022 Lopez pleaded guilty to robbing a male jogger that same night to avoid a more ruinous rape conviction. al, 25 July 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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