Usually means: Causing extreme damage or destruction.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word ruinously:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. ruinously: Merriam-Webster
  2. ruinously: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ruinously: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ruinously: Vocabulary.com
  5. ruinously: Wordnik
  6. ruinously: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. ruinously: Wiktionary
  8. ruinously: Dictionary.com
  9. ruinously: Rhymezone
  10. ruinously: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. ruinously: FreeDictionary.org
  12. ruinously: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. ruinously: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruinously: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  in a way that will cause ruin

Similar:
corrodingly, destroyingly, destructively, ruttily, rottenly, rough, putridly, abradingly, grottily, rustily, more...

Opposite:
prosperously, successfully, thrivingly

Types:
disastrously, catastrophically, calamitously, apocalyptically, more...

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Similar:
corrodingly, destroyingly, destructively, ruttily, rottenly, rough, putridly, abradingly, grottily, rustily, more...

Opposite:
prosperously, successfully, thrivingly

Types:
disastrously, catastrophically, calamitously, apocalyptically, more...



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