extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"
Used in a Sentence
ruinous
How to use ruinous in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for ruinous.
Editorial note
So AirBnB can't really acknowledge what they did and try and move on... financially, it would be ruinous for them.
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Quick take
extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of ruinous gathered in one view.
causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for ruinous.
adjective
extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"
See also: catastrophic
adjective
causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin; "the blasting effects of the intense cold on the budding fruit"; "the blasting force of the wind blowing sharp needles of sleet in our faces"; "a ruinous war"
See also: blasting
Example sentences
So AirBnB can't really acknowledge what they did and try and move on... financially, it would be ruinous for them.
Truly ruinous, truly!How about we drop the boogeyman and drop the anecdotes and start citing some sources?
The volatility is valuable for speculators, but could be ruinous if you were trying to run a business based on it.
In fact I think it's one of the most ruinous decisions for the Linux community that Canonical could have possibly made.
They're a lot more ruinous to companies than the outspoken and self-executive types that dinosaurs call "prima donnas".
Eventually, I wound up not pursuing the matter in court--talking it over with my attorney, it became quite clear that the legal fees of fighting them would be ruinous.
One of the issues that's been topical around here lately is that the cost of being found not guilty by a jury, is itself ruinous, if not totally out of reach of most people.
That's why they were offering a mere 6-8 months in jail on multiple felony confessions vs. 35 years in prison, a $1mm fine and a trial process designed to be financially ruinous.
It is ruinous to Spain's public finances, but we don't hear so much about it, since the relative size of that particular debacle is smaller than the Irish "public finances suicide by banking".
Sometimes a powerful optimization with little loss of clarity, sometimes utterly ruinous to any hope of understanding the code.
Conventional wisdom holds that communism collapsed because America forced the Soviet Union into an economically ruinous arms race.
While certainly the very nature of corporations creates negative externalities, we have had plenty of examples of high level executives that pursue a course of profit that knowingly endangers and harms others and may ultimately even be ruinous to the business itself.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use ruinous in a sentence?
So AirBnB can't really acknowledge what they did and try and move on... financially, it would be ruinous for them.
What does ruinous mean?
extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin; "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a ruinous course of action"
What part of speech is ruinous?
ruinous is commonly used as adjective.