baleful English

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What does baleful mean?

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baleful Adjective

— If something is baleful, it warns about an evil that is about to happen; it is ominous.

baleful

— adjective deadly or sinister the Florida eagles have a fierce baleful look

— adjective (= forbidding, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments a baleful look forbidding thunderclouds his tone became menacing ominous rumblings of discontent sinister storm clouds a sinister smile his threatening behavior ugly black clouds the situation became ugly

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baneful

sinister

pernicious

ominous

threatening

menacing

fatal

minatory

minacious

harmful

evil

ruinous

malign

lowering

forbidding

disastrous

deadly

wolfish

wicked

unlucky

toxic

sullen

spiteful

sorry

sorrowful

sad

regrettable

presagious

presageful

portentous

pestilent

pestiferous

painful

noxious

murderous

mournful

malignant

malicious

malefic

injurious

inauspicious

impending

impendent

imminent

ill-omened

grievous

foreboding

doleful

distressing

direful