baleful

The word “baleful” has 2 syllables: bale-ful

It's pronounced as /ˈbeɪl.fəl/

What is synonym and antonym for baleful?

In the thesaurus, “baleful” has 143 synonyms and 49 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for baleful along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for baleful

Cimmerian
adverse
bad
baneful
black
bleak
bloody
calamitous
cheerless
chill
cloudy
cold
comfortless
contagious
damaging
dangerous
dark
darkening
deadly
deathly
deleterious
depressing
depressive
desolate
destructive
detrimental
dim
dire
direful
disconsolate
discouraging
disheartening
dismal
doomy
drear
dreary
dreich
elegiac
elegiacal
evil
fatal
fell
foreboding
forlorn
funereal
gloomy
glum
godforsaken
grave
gray
grey
grievous
harmful
hazardous
hopeless
hostile
hurtful
ill
ill-boding
ill-fated
ill-starred
imperiling
imperilling
inauspicious
infectious
infective
inimical
injurious
insidious
internecine
jeopardizing
killer
lethal
lonely
lonesome
lugubrious
malevolent
malign
malignant
menacing
minatory
mischievous
miserable
morbid
morose
mortal
murderous
murky
nasty
nocuous
noisome
noxious
ominous
parlous
perilous
pernicious
pestiferous
pestilent
pestilential
plutonian
poisonous
portentous
prejudicial
risky
ruinous
sanguinary
sanguine
saturnine
sepulchral
serious
sinister
somber
sombre
star-crossed
sublethal
sullen
sunless
tenebrific
tenebrous
terminal
threatening
toxic
troubled
truculent
ugly
unfavorable
unfortunate
unfriendly
unhealthful
unhealthy
unlucky
unpromising
unpropitious
unsafe
unsound
unwholesome
venomous
vindictive
virulent
vital
wicked
woeful
wretched

Antonyms for baleful

advantageous
alleviative
anodyne
auspicious
beneficial
benign
benignant
bright
corrective
curative
encouraging
favorable
golden
good
harmless
healthful
healthy
heartening
helpful
helping
hopeful
hurtless
innocent
innocuous
inoffensive
noncorrosive
nondestructive
nonfatal
noninfectious
nonlethal
nonpoisonous
nonpolluting
nontoxic
nonvenomous
palliative
promising
propitious
prosperous
remedial
restorative
safe
salubrious
salutary
secure
sound
tonic
unthreatening
useful
wholesome

Meanings of baleful

adjective
1. Portending evil; ominous.
2. Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.

Example Sentences

The dark clouds gathered overhead, casting a baleful shadow over the landscape.
His baleful glare made it clear that he was not pleased with the situation.
The old mansion had an eerie, baleful atmosphere that sent shivers down the spines of those who dared to enter.
She couldn't shake the feeling of baleful eyes watching her from the shadows.
The predator fixed its baleful gaze on its prey, ready to strike at any moment.

On this page you'll find 192 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to baleful, such as: Cimmerian, advantageous, adverse, alleviative, anodyne, auspicious, bad.

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