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Word Meanings - RUINOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project. After a night of storm so ruinous. Milton. 2. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.

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1. Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project. After a night of storm so ruinous. Milton. 2. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state. 3. Composed of, or consisting in, ruins. Behold, Damascus . . . shall be a ruinous heap. Isa. xvii. 1. Syn. -- Dilapidated; decayed; demolished; pernicious; destructive; baneful; wasteful; mischievous. -- Ru"in*ous*ly, adv. -- Ru"in*ous*ness, n.

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  • NODDING
    Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.
  • FALTER
    To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
  • VACILLATING
    Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.
  • HURTFUL
    Tending to impair or damage; injurious; mischievous; occasioning loss or injury; as, hurtful words or conduct. Syn. -- Pernicious; harmful; baneful; prejudicial; detrimental; disadvantageous; mischievous; injurious; noxious; unwholesome;
  • BANEFUL
    Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. "Baneful hemlock." Garth. "Baneful wrath." Chapman. -- Bane"ful*ly, adv. --Bane"ful*ness, n.
  • DESTRUCTIVENESS
    The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. (more info) 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.
  • TOTTER
    1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
  • REELECT
    To elect again; as, to reëlect the former governor.
  • NODDY
    1. A simpleton; a fool. L'Estrange. Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus. The arctic fulmar . Sometimes also applied to other sea birds. 3. An old game at cards. Halliwell. 4. A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle. 5. An inverted pendulum
  • VACILLATION
    1. The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. His vacillations, or an alternation of knowledge and doubt. Jer. Taylor.
  • SHAKY
    1. Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. Thackeray. 2. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. Gwilt. 3. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit.
  • BALEFULNESS
    The quality or state of being baleful.
  • INJURIOUS
    1. Not just; wrongful; iniquitous; culpable. Milton. Till the injurious Roman did extort This tribute from us, we were free. Shak. 2. Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health,
  • DETRIMENTAL
    Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison. Syn. -- Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous; mischievous; pernicious.
  • BALEFULLY
    In a baleful manner; perniciously.
  • NODDER
    One who nods; a drowsy person.
  • NOXIOUS
    1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples. Too frequent an appearance in places of public
  • VACILLATE
    1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. Paley. 2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver. Syn. -- See Fluctuate.
  • TOTTERY
    Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson.
  • DESTRUCTIVELY
    In a destructive manner.
  • TREELESS
    Destitute of trees. C. Kingsley.
  • KREEL
    See CREEL
  • OBNOXIOUS
    1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton.
  • PRUINOUS
    Frosty; pruinose.
  • FREELTE
    Frailty. Chaucer.
  • TITTER-TOTTER
    See TEETER
  • PREELECT
    To elect beforehand.

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