Baleful \Bale"ful\ (b[=a]l"f[.u]l), a. [AS. bealoful. See Bale
misery.]
1. Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.
"Baleful enemies." --Shak.
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Four infernal rivers that disgorge
Into the burning lake their baleful streams.
--Milton.
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2. Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad. [Archaic]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
baleful
adj 1: deadly or sinister; "the Florida eagles have a fierce
baleful look" [syn: baneful]
2: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a
baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone
became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent";
"sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his
threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation
became ugly" [syn: forbidding, menacing, minacious,
minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening, ugly]
WordNet (r) 2.0
82 Moby Thesaurus words for "baleful":
apocalyptic, bad, baneful, bitchy, black, bodeful, boding,
corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive,
cussed, damaging, dark, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, dire,
direful, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, doomful,
dreary, evil, evil-starred, fateful, foreboding, gloomy, harmful,
hateful, hurtful, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened,
ill-starred, inauspicious, iniquitous, injurious, invidious,
lethal, lowering, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious,
malign, malignant, mean, menacing, mischievous, nasty, noisome,
noxious, of evil portent, ominous, ornery, pernicious, poisonous,
portending, portentous, prejudicial, scatheful, sinister, somber,
threatening, toxic, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising,
unpropitious, untoward, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous,
vicious, virulent, wicked
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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