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baleful

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of baleful

1 being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come

a dark, baleful sky portending a tornado

Synonyms of baleful

dire, direful, doomy, foreboding, ill, ill-boding, inauspicious, menacing, minatory, ominous, portentous, sinister, threatening

Words Related to baleful

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

discouraging, disheartening, hopeless, unfavorable, unpromising, unpropitious

ill-fated, ill-starred, star-crossed, troubled, unfortunate, unlucky

evil, malign, malignant

Near Antonyms of baleful

auspicious, benign, bright, encouraging, favorable, golden, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious, prosperous

Antonyms of baleful

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

Synonyms of baleful

adverse, bad, baneful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked

Words Related to baleful

hostile, inimical, unfriendly

contagious, deadly, infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous

insidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening

hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound

nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome

destructive, fatal, killer, lethal, malignant, ruinous

Near Antonyms of baleful

advantageous, beneficial, useful

favorable, good, propitious

curative, healthful, healthy, helpful, palliative, remedial, salubrious, salutary, wholesome

noncorrosive, nondestructive, nonfatal, noninfectious, nonlethal, nonpoisonous, nonpolluting, nontoxic, nonvenomous

Antonyms of baleful

anodyne, benign, harmless, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe

3 likely to cause or capable of causing death

a medicine that is beneficial in small doses but baleful in large

Synonyms of baleful

deadly, deathly, fatal, fell, killer, lethal, mortal, murderous, pestilent, terminal, vital

Words Related to baleful

baneful, deleterious, destructive, harmful, injurious, noxious, pernicious, truculent

infectious, infective, pestilential, poisonous, sublethal, toxic, virulent

dangerous, grave, grievous, hazardous, jeopardizing, menacing, parlous, perilous, risky, serious, threatening, ugly, unhealthy, unsound

bloody, internecine, sanguinary, sanguine

Near Antonyms of baleful

beneficial, restorative, salubrious, salutary

alleviative, corrective, curative, remedial, tonic

advantageous, beneficial, useful

nonpoisonous, nontoxic, safe

Antonyms of baleful

healthful, healthy, nonfatal, nonlethal, wholesome

Synonym Discussion of baleful

sinister, baleful, malign mean seriously threatening evil or disaster. sinister suggests a general or vague feeling of fear or apprehension on the part of the observer.

- a sinister aura haunts the place

baleful imputes perniciousness or destructiveness to something whether working openly or covertly.

- exerting a corrupt and baleful influence

malign applies to what is inherently evil or harmful.

- the malign effects of racism

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