- 7. Wrinkled, frowning, surly, sour, discomposed, ruffled.
- 8. Rude, boisterous, violent, tumultuous.
Ruggedness, n.
- 1. Roughness, unevenness, asperity.
- 2. Harshness, severity, rigor, roughness, coarseness, rudeness, surliness.
- 3. Boisterousness, storminess, inclemency, turbulence, tempestuousness.
Rugose, a. Wrinkled, rugous.
Rugous, a. See Rugose.
Ruin, n.
- 1. Destruction, discomfiture, overthrow, defeat, wreck, perdition, fall, downfall, prostration, subversion,
undoing, shipwreck.
- 2. Bane, pest, mischief, destruction, perdition.
- 3. Wreck.
Ruin, v. a.
- 1. Destroy, demolish, overthrow, subvert, overturn, overwhelm, defeat, ruinate.
- 2. Impoverish, bring to want, reduce to poverty.
Ruinate, v. a.
- 1. Ruin, destroy, demolish, subvert, reduce to ruin.
- 2. Reduce to poverty.
Ruination, n. Demolition, destruction, subversion, overthrow, ruin.
Ruinous, a.
- 1. Decayed, dilapidated, demolished.
- 2. Destructive, pernicious, baneful, noxious, noisome, calamitous, wasteful, mischievous.