ruinuous

adj

1. devastating, disastrous, destructive, dire, dreadful, calamitous, catastrophic, cataclysmic; wasting, wasteful, ravaging, pulverizing; disruptive, troublesome, distracting, obstreperous, unruly, subversive.

2. extirpative, annihilative, eradicative, obliterative; deadly, fatal, fell, mortal, lethal, Archaic. lethiferous; killing, murderous, suicidal, homicidal, slaughterous.

3. injurious, pernicious, deleterious, baneful, mischievous; hurtful, harmful, noxious, noisome; malicious, vicious, wicked, evil, malevolent; detrimental, disadvantageous, damaging; baleful, menacing, malignant, bad; unwholesome, poisonous, toxic, pestilential, pestiferous, virulent.

4. adverse, negative, contrary, contradictory, opposed, opposing, opposite, antithetical, conflicting; disproving, refuting, confuting, discrediting, invalidating; derogatory, disparaging, disapproving; unfavorable, unpropitious, unauspicious; unfriendly, antagonistic, clashing, hostile.

5. fallen into ruin, run-down, weather-beaten, time-worn, worn-out; dilapidated, broken-down, decrepit, tumble-down, antiquated; decayed, crumbling, moldering, rotten, moth-eaten, seedy; rusty, frayed, shabby, threadbare, faded.

6. devastated, desolated, ravaged, destroyed, wrecked, demolished; deteriorated, decayed, wasted, depleted, dissipated, dispersed; collapsed, disorganized, dis solved, undone.

7. corrupted, depraved, perverted, demoralized, vitiated; debased, degraded; contaminated, tainted, poisoned, polluted, defiled; injured, damaged, spoiled, marred, scarred, defaced.

8. deprived, bereaved; impoverished, wanting, destitute, Inf. on the rocks, needy; penniless, penurious, indigent; bankrupt, insolvent.