Baneful \Bane"ful\, a.
Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious;
noxious; pernicious. "Baneful hemlock." --Garth. "Baneful
wrath." --Chapman.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
baneful
adj 1: exceedingly harmful [syn: deadly, pernicious, pestilent]
2: deadly or sinister; "the Florida eagles have a fierce
baleful look" [syn: baleful]
WordNet (r) 2.0
134 Moby Thesaurus words for "baneful":
apocalyptic, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, baleful, beastly,
black, bodeful, boding, brutal, calamitous, cataclysmal,
cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, corroding,
corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging,
dark, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, deleterious,
demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying,
destructive, detrimental, devastating, dire, direful,
disadvantageous, disastrous, disserviceable, distressing, doomful,
dreadful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, fatal, fateful, feral,
foreboding, fratricidal, gloomy, grim, harmful, hideous,
horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, hurtful, ill,
ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious,
injurious, insalubrious, internecine, killing, lethal, lowering,
malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, menacing, mischievous,
mortal, nihilist, nihilistic, noisome, noxious, of evil portent,
ominous, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential,
poisonous, portending, portentous, prejudicial, ravaging, rotten,
ruining, ruinous, savage, scatheful, self-destructive, shocking,
sinister, somber, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, terrible,
threatening, toxic, tragic, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhealthy,
unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, unspeakable, untoward,
unwholesome, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, venenate,
veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, wasteful,
wasting, withering
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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