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1
bringing about ruin or misfortune
- a ruinous miscalculation of the financial markets left them bankrupt
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- apocalyptic
- (also apocalyptical)
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- fluky
- (also flukey),
- fortuitous,
- fortunate,
- happy,
- lucky,
- providential
2
causing or tending to cause destruction
- a ruinous windstorm destroyed the crops
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