baneful

Speech parts

1. baneful - Adjective

2. baneful - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

fatal deadly pernicious baleful pestilent feller hellfire praetorian deathly bad dangerous evil suicide harmful damaging
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Antonyms

productive helpful pat god-fearing blest trine
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Related terms

bane banefully banefulness

Phrases with the word

more baneful less baneful

Examples

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid. Herman Melville

In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow. Francis Parkman

Luxury, that baneful poison, has unstrung and enfeebled her sons. Abigail Adams

He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears. Bram Stoker

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good? Zebulon Pike

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally. George Washington

Close letter words and terms

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