Word.ws English Dictionary

ruderous

/ˈɹuː.də.ɹəs/

ruderous adjective: abounding in rubble or rubbish.

Adjective

ruderous (comparative more ruderous, superlative most ruderous)

  1. Abounding in rubble or rubbish.
    • The maritime Mountains are as rocky, as ruderous, and as irregular and various in their Shape and Posture, as the inland Mountains.1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, The sacred theory of the earth

Forms of ruderous

comparativemore ruderous
superlativemost ruderous

Questions about ruderous

What does ruderous mean?
Ruderous means abounding in rubble or rubbish.
What part of speech is ruderous?
Ruderous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce ruderous?
Ruderous is pronounced /ˈɹuː.də.ɹəs/.

Words near ruderous in the dictionary

  1. ruderals
  2. ruderation
  3. ruderies
  4. Ruderman
  5. Rudermans
  6. ruderous
  7. Rudert
  8. rudery
  9. rudesbies
  10. rudesby
  11. rudesbys

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ruderous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ruderous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ruderous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.