ruinous

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ru·in·ous /ˈruːɪnəs/ adjectiveadj

1 DESTROYcausing a lot of damage or problems 破坏性的；毁灭性的

a ruinous civil war

一场毁灭性的内战

2 EXPENSIVEcosting much more than you can afford 导致破产的；耗资巨大的

ruinous rates of interest

巨额利率

3 formal a building that is ruinous has been almost completely destroyed 〔建筑物〕毁坏了的，严重受损的 SYN ruined

an old ruinous chapel

老旧破败的小教堂

ruinous state/condition

the ruinous state of the city walls

城墙破败的样子

—ruinously adverbadv

ruinously expensive

贵得无法承受

Examples from the Corpus

ruinous• In fact, depending on the type of plan you have, they can become ruinous.• So his strategy made sense at the same time as it seemed wantonly ruinous.• Alcohol is as ruinous as illegal drugs.• Rarely does a year start by offering so many opportunities for governments to make ruinous mistakes.• Santa Anna had created twelve thousand new civil and military positions and had obtained several loans at ruinous rates of interest.• That was before its ruinous so-called restoration.• Most of them are in a ruinous state with their upper storeys missing shattered by earthquake, war, neglect.• ruinous taxes• Our present policies are also ruinous to health.

ruinous state/condition• A little further along the road is Dun Trodden, another broch in a more ruinous condition.• They also tell us of a field with the manor house in a ruinous condition.• The interior is still in ruinous condition though the exterior is fairly intact.• Most of them are in a ruinous state with their upper storeys missing shattered by earthquake, war, neglect.

From Longman Business Dictionary

ruinousru·in·ous /ˈruːɪnəs/ adjectiveadj

1causing great damage to something

a ruinous civil war

2FINANCEcosting a lot more than you can afford

the prospect of ruinous legal costs

—ruinously adverbadv

ruinously high interest rates

ru·in·ous adjectiveadj

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