baleful
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- deadly or sinister
- "the Florida eagles have a fierce baleful look"
- threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
- "a baleful look"
Adj
- Portending evil; ominous.
- Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.
- Deadly, mortal.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English baleful, balful, baluful, from Old English bealuful, which was equivalent to bealu + -ful. By surface analysis, bale (“evil, woe”) + -ful. See bale for further etymology.
Synonyms
augurous, baleful, baneful, bodeful, boding, brooding, dire, disastrous, fatal, forbidding, foreboding, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicate, inauspicious, lethal, menacing, minacious, minatory, nefastous, omenic, ominous, portentous, presageful, presagious, prodigious, sinister, star-crossed, sullen, terminal, threatening
Scrabble Score: 12
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