ruinous vs wrackful

ruinous

adj
  • Causing ruin; destructive, calamitous 

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

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

wrackful

adj
  • Full of wrack or wreckage; ruinous; destructive. 

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