ruinous

About 0.83 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous.
2. adjective Extremely costly; so expensive as to cause financial ruin.

   They were forced to completely replace the roof at ruinous expense.

3. adjective Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.

Similar words

destructive harmful catastrophic blasting dilapidated devastating damaging decrepit detrimental crippling

Often followed by

to and condition state competition consequences in effects for

Word family

ruinously ruinousness ruinousnesses