ruined

Other forms of ruined

comparative

ruinedder·

superlative

ruineddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ruined

What does ruined mean?

ruined means "destroyed physically or morally". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ruined?

ruined has 2 syllables: rui-ned. The stress falls on "rui". In IPA it is /ˈɹuənd/.

What is another word for ruined?

Close synonyms include destroyed, done for, sunk, undone, washed-up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ruined a common word?

ruined is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.