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life-ruining

life-ruining adjective: having the potential to negatively impact someone's life.

Adjective

life-ruining (comparative more life-ruining, superlative most life-ruining)

  1. Having the potential to negatively impact someone's life.
    • All of which is to say – my OCD is back. For those of you who have not had the displeasure, OCD stands for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and it is an absolute arseache. Again, at best. Utterly debilitating and life-ruining at worst.2025 October 20, Lucy Mangan, “My OCD is back. It's exhausting and awful, but this time I'm ready”, in The i Paper, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2025

Forms of life-ruining

comparativemore life-ruining
superlativemost life-ruining

Origin of life-ruining

From life + ruining.

Questions about life-ruining

What does life-ruining mean?
Life-ruining means having the potential to negatively impact someone's life.
What part of speech is life-ruining?
Life-ruining is an adjective.

Words near life-ruining in the dictionary

  1. life-long
  2. life-lore
  3. life-or-death
  4. life-preserver
  5. life-preservers
  6. life-ruining
  7. life-saver
  8. life-savers
  9. life-saving
  10. life-sentenced
  11. life-size

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