Ruinous Synonyms and Antonyms

ro͝oə-nəs
Leading to bankruptcy
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. unfortunate
  2. rash
  3. destructive
  4. speculative
  5. suicidal
  6. fatal
  7. impoverishing
  8. pauperizing
  9. exhausting
  10. draining
  11. depleting
  12. bringing to want
  13. reducing to penury
  14. pernicious
Antonyms:
  1. beneficial
  2. advantageous
  3. helpful
  4. assisting
Falling to ruin
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. dilapidated
  2. ramshackle
  3. rundown
  4. tumbledown

Words Related to Ruinous

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. help
  2. better
  3. harmful
  4. delapidated
  5. in ruins

Ruinous Sentence Examples

  • The results were ruinous to France.

  • It was finally destroyed by Glendower, was a "ruinous building" when seen by Leland (1536) and has since wholly disappeared.

  • Iraq and Iran blame each other for their ruinous war and each sees the outcome as a victory.

  • But on the whole there was no ruinous devastation of the land.

  • Briihl must therefore be held wholly responsible for the ruinous policy which destroyed the position of Saxony in Germany between 1733 and 1763; for the mistaken ambition which led Frederick Augustus II.

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