Baleful

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Portending evil; ominous. See Synonyms at sinister.
  • adj. Harmful or malignant in intent or effect.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Portending evil; ominous.
  • adj. Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.
  • adj. Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Full of hurtful or malign influence; destructive; pernicious; noxious; direful; deadly: as, “baleful breath,”
  • “baleful drugs,”
  • Fraught with bale; full of calamity or misfortune; disastrous; wretched; miserable.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
  • adj. deadly or sinister
    • Equivalent
    alarming    maleficent   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    destructive    woeful    sad    harmful    sorrowful   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    feral    unblinking    demonic    lurid    malevolent   
     
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