Usually means: Harmful, menacing, or threatening effect.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. baleful: Merriam-Webster
  2. baleful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. baleful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. baleful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. baleful: Vocabulary.com
  6. Baleful, baleful: Wordnik
  7. baleful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. baleful: Wiktionary
  9. baleful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. baleful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. baleful: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Baleful, baleful: Dictionary.com
  13. baleful: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Baleful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. baleful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. baleful: Rhymezone
  17. Baleful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. baleful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. baleful: FreeDictionary.org
  20. baleful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. baleful: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. baleful: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. baleful: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baleful: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baleful: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (baleful)

▸ adjective:  Portending evil; ominous.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Deadly, mortal.

Similar:
minacious, maleficent, baneful, forbidding, menacing, alarming, minatory, sinister, threatening, ominous, more...

Opposite:
beneficial, benign, favorable, good

Types:
pernicious, noxious, injurious, harmful, detrimental, more...

Phrases:
baleful edict, more...

Adjectives:
unfortunate, more, less, boundless, french, baneful, whole

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Similar:
minacious, maleficent, baneful, forbidding, menacing, alarming, minatory, sinister, threatening, ominous, more...

Opposite:
beneficial, benign, favorable, good

Types:
pernicious, noxious, injurious, harmful, detrimental, more...

Phrases:
baleful edict, more...

Adjectives:
unfortunate, more, less, boundless, french, baneful, whole

Colors:
    dark red,     black,     deep purple,     blood red,     charcoal, more...



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