baleful

Speech parts

1. baleful - Adjective

2. baleful - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.

Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

threatening forbidding sinister menacing ominous baneful minatory minacious black bad dangerous evil ill hostile fatal
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Antonyms

god-fearing golden beneficent good direct lucky
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Phrases with the word

as baleful as death baleful laugh more baleful baleful as death baleful aura less baleful

Examples

We do not die since we are alone. It is the others who die. And this sentence, which comes to my lips tremulously, at once baleful and beaming with light, announces that death is a false god. Henri Barbusse

And, truly, good consequences follow out of it: who can be blind to them? Half of a most excellent and opulent result is realized to us in this way; baleful only when it sets up (as too often now) for being the whole result. Thomas Carlyle

The influence of war on the community at large, on its prosperity, its morals, and its political institutions, though less striking than on the soldiery, is yet baleful. William Ellery Channing

Stealthily the computer advanced, vanguard of the technological revolution, hailed as the cure for all mankind's ills and denounced as the baleful force which would first enslave and then destroy us all. Bernard Levin

a baleful look Source: Internet

forbidding thunderclouds Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

baleen whale baleen whales balefire baleful as death baleful aura baleful laugh