ruinously
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7.8
- adverb
- /ˈruːɪnəsli/
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ruinosamente
- As head of the Rada's budgetary committee and the State Tax Administration in the 1990s, Azarov turned a blind eye to government graft and imposed ruinously high tax rates on small businesses.
- ruinously expensive
- ruinously high
Examples
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Allow me to refresh your memory in the form of a song so ruinously catchy that it may never leave your mind.
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Our society was utterly, ruinously derivative.
Blog text (25) -
You are a ruinously spoilt child.
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Americans did not take this grandiose and ruinously destructive plan on faith, nor should they have.
Academic text (2010) -
How "ruinously"?
Academic text (1990) -
The meaning of Jesus that came through with the resurrection had already inserted itself ruinously in the untransformed ego of the disciples.
Academic text (1990) -
(clamoring) ...personally responsible for leaving this nation ruinously unprepared to face the present Nazi peril.
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The United States would thereby set the norm for other nations (that have begun to imitate its ruinously bad habit of delaying payments) and greatly improve the U.N. system's cash flow.
Academic text (2000) -
The cost of child care is ruinously high for many families.
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After the storm, the repairs for the roof became ruinously expensive.
Synonyms
6
5.6
In a way that causes great harm or failure
3
4.2
In a way that causes harm or damage
3
6.7
In a way that causes great harm or damage
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9.5
In a way that causes a very large violent change or disaster
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9.0
In a way that causes harm or damage
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4.4
In a way that causes harm or bad results
In a way that causes great harm or disaster
In a very great and dramatic way
In a way that causes great harm
How Destructive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ruinously comes from ruin, an old word meaning 'a fall' or 'collapse', and you can picture ruins — broken buildings or destroyed things. With -ous and -ly it means 'in a way that causes ruin', so ruinously describes something so expensive or damaging it makes things fall apart.