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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ablative, annihilative, ausgespielt, baleful, baneful, bankrupt, battered, beat-up, beaten up, bedraggled, biodegradable, black, blasted, blighted, blowzy, broken, broken-down, calamitous, careless, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, chintzy, consuming, consumptive, corrosive, crippling, crumbling, deadly, decomposable, decomposing, decrepit, degradable, deleterious, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, derelict, desolated, desolating, destroyed, destroying, destructive, devastated, devastating, dilapidated, dire, disastrous, disintegrable, disintegrated, disintegrating, disintegrative, disjunctive, disruptive, done for, done in, doomful, down-and-out, drabbletailed, draggled, draggletailed, dusty, erosive, fallen, fatal, fateful, finished, fratricidal, frowzy, frumpish, frumpy, fusty, gone to pot, gone to seed, grievous, grubby, harmful, in rags, in ruins, informal, injurious, internecine, irremediable, kaput, loose, lumpen, messy, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moss-grown, moth-eaten, mussy, musty, nasty, negligent, nihilist, nihilistic, noxious, overthrown, pernicious, poisonous, poky, ragged, raggedy, ramshackle, ravaged, ravaging, resolvent, ruined, ruining, run-down, rusty, scraggly, seedy, self-destructive, separative, shabby, shattering, shoddy, slack, slatternly, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, slummy, sluttish, solvent, sordid, spoiled, squalid, stale, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, tacky, tattered, time-scarred, timeworn, tottery, toxic, tragic, tumbledown, undone, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, untidy, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasted, wasteful, wasting, withering, worn, wrecked, wreckful
Dictionary Results for ruinous:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
ruinous
    adj 1: extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin;
           "a catastrophic depression"; "catastrophic illness"; "a
           ruinous course of action" [syn: catastrophic,
           ruinous]
    2: 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" [syn: blasting, ruinous]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ruinous \Ru"in*ous\, a. [L. ruinosus: cf. F. ruineux. See
   Ruin.]
   1. Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful;
      pernicious; as, a ruinous project.
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            After a night of storm so ruinous.    --Milton.
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   2. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an
      edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
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   3. Composed of, or consisting in, ruins.
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            Behold, Damascus . . . shall be a ruinous heap.
                                                  --Isa. xvii.
                                                  1.
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   Syn: Dilapidated; decayed; demolished; pernicious;
        destructive; baneful; wasteful; mischievous.
        [1913 Webster] -- Ru"in*ous*ly, adv. --
        Ru"in*ous*ness, n.
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