ruinous vs suicidal

ruinous

adj
  • Extremely costly; so expensive as to cause financial ruin. 

  • Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous 

  • Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state. 

suicidal

adj
  • Extremely reckless. 

  • Likely to commit, or to attempt to commit, suicide. 

  • Highly likely to certain to result in the deaths of the participants; dangerous or reckless to such a degree as to be tantamount to suicide for those taking part. 

  • Pertaining to suicide. 

noun
  • Someone suicidal; someone likely to kill themselves. 

How often have the words ruinous and suicidal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )