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baleful

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Main Entry: baleful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: menacing

Synonyms:

calamitous, deadly, dire, evil, foreboding, harmful, hurtful, injurious, malevolent, malignant, noxious, ominous, pernicious, ruinous, sinister, threatening, venomous, vindictive, woeful
Notes: something is baleful that intends or portends harm or injury; something is baneful that produces harm or injury - thus, a glance may be baleful, an herb or poison baneful

Antonyms:

advantageous, auspicious, favorable, good, helping, promising
Main Entry: baneful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ruinous, injurious

Synonyms:

baleful, calamitous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, disastrous, evil, fatal, harmful, hurtful, malefic, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous, wicked
Notes: something is baleful that intends or portends harm or injury; something is baneful that produces harm or injury - thus, a glance may be baleful, an herb or poison baneful

Antonyms:

advantageous, beneficial, beneficient, fortunate, helpful, lucky
Main Entry: deadly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: causing end of life

Synonyms:

baleful, baneful, bloodthirsty, bloody, cannibalistic, carcinogenic, cruel, dangerous, death-dealing, deathly, deleterious, destroying, destructive, fatal, grim, harmful, homicidal, injurious, internecine, killing, lethal, malignant, mortal, mortiferous, murderous, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, ruthless, savage, slaying, suicidal, toxic, unrelenting, venomous, violent, virulent

Antonyms:

animating, energizing, harmless, healthful, healthy, invigorating, wholesome
Main Entry: destructive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: injurious, devastating

Synonyms:

annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, cutthroat, damaging, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, dire, disastrous, eradicative, evil, extirpative, fatal, fell, harmful, hurtful, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, ruinous, slaughterous, suicidal, toxic, venomous, wrackful, wreckful

Antonyms:

aiding, assisting, building, creative, helpful, productive
Main Entry: detrimental
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: damaging, disadvantageous

Synonyms:

adverse, bad, baleful, deleterious, destructive, disturbing, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, mischievous, negative, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial, unfavorable

Antonyms:

advantageous, assisting, beneficial, helpful, profitable
Main Entry: direful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fearful; horrible

Synonyms:

apocalyptic, appalling, awful, baleful, baneful, calamitous, dreadful, fateful, ghastly, gloomy, horrid, ill-boding, inauspicious, ominous, shocking, terrible, terrific, unlucky, unpropitious

Antonyms:

good, nice
Main Entry: fatal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deadly, lethal

Synonyms:

baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, deathly, destructive, disastrous, fateful, final, ill-fated, ill-starred, incurable, inevitable, killing, malefic, malignant, mortal, mortiferous, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, terminal, virulent

Antonyms:

healthful, life-giving, nourishing, vital, wholesome
Main Entry: fearful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: horrifying

Synonyms:

appalling, astounding, atrocious, awful, baleful, bloodcurdling, creepy, dire, distressing, dreadful, eerie, formidable, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, grievous, grim, grisly, gruesome, hair-raising, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrific, lurid, macabre, monstrous, morbid, overwhelming, redoubtable, shocking, shuddersome, sinister, strange, sublime, terrible, tremendous, unearthly, unspeakable

Antonyms:

good, nice, pleasant
Main Entry: harmful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: injurious, hurtful

Synonyms:

adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, corroding, corrupting, crippling, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, evil, harassing, incendiary, inimical, internecine, malefic, malicious, malignant, menacing, mischievous, murderous, nocuous, noxious, painful, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, risky, ruinous, sinful, sinister, subversive, toxic, undermining, unhealthy, unsafe, unwholesome, virulent
Main Entry: inauspicious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ominous, unpromising

Synonyms:

bad, baleful, baneful, black, dire, discouraging, evil, fateful, foreboding, ill-boding, ill-omened, impending, inopportune, sinister, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untimely, untoward

Antonyms:

auspicious, favorable, fortunate, lucky, promising
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