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# ruinous

«ruinous» in Mova's school dictionary: **fallen to pieces, in ruins: a ruinous castle** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (no forms)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Ruinous means fallen to pieces, in ruins: a ruinous castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ruinous/#m1)

2) Ruinous also means causing great loss or damage, very costly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ruinous/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, an old castle or building is in ruins and is haunted; in lessons it describes something in ruins or badly damaged

### examples

- It was a ruinous old castle, haunted by spirits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ruinous/#x1)
- The balcony was in a very ruinous state. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ruinous/#x2)
- The repairs would be ruinous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ruinous/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.360/)
- [Surely none shall put forth his hand to a ruinous heap, neither because of these things shall help come in one's calamity,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.772/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ruinous» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/ruinous/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.