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Synonyms & Antonyms of baleful
1
being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come
- a dark, baleful sky portending a tornado
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- black,
- bleak,
- cheerless,
- chill,
- Cimmerian,
- cloudy,
- cold,
- comfortless,
- dark,
- darkening,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- dim,
- disconsolate,
- dismal,
- drear,
- dreary,
- dreich
- [chiefly Scottish],
- elegiac
- (also elegiacal),
- forlorn,
- funereal,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- godforsaken,
- gray
- (also grey),
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- lugubrious,
- miserable,
- morbid,
- morose,
- murky,
- plutonian,
- saturnine,
- sepulchral,
- somber
- (or sombre),
- sullen,
- sunless,
- tenebrific,
- tenebrous,
- wretched
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2
causing or capable of causing harm
- contends that the violent content of so much of popular entertainment is a baleful influence on our society
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3
likely to cause or capable of causing death
- a medicine that is beneficial in small doses but baleful in large
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“Baleful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/baleful. Accessed 27 Sep. 2021.
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The first known use of baleful was before the 12th century
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