Synonyms for ruinous
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Destructive
pernicious, calamitous, disastrous; see destructive 2, harmful.
Leading to bankruptcy
unfortunate, rash, speculative, suicidal, fatal, impoverishing, pauperizing, exhausting, draining, depleting, bringing to want, reducing to penury.
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adjective
Causing ruin or destruction:
calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, destructive, disastrous, fatal, fateful. See helpHaving the capability or effect of damaging irreparably:
destructive, pernicious. See helpFalling to ruin:
dilapidated, ramshackle, rundown, tumbledown. See better
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