life-ruining

adjective

Having the potential to negatively impact someone's life.

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Meanings

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

Origin

From life + ruining.

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APA

life-ruining. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/life-ruining

MLA

“life-ruining.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/life-ruining. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “life-ruining,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/life-ruining.

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