baleful
adjectiveHow many syllables in baleful?
There are 2 syllables in the word baleful.How to pronounce baleful:
Definition of baleful:
- baleful (adjective):
- deadly or sinister.
- harmful, menacing, or vindictive
- deadly or pernicious in influence
Synonyms for baleful:
baneful
black
bleak
bodeful
dangerous
dark
darkening
deadly
depressing
depressive
desolate
dim
dire
direful
doomy
evil
forbidding
foreboding
frightening
gray
grey
harmful
hurtful
ill
ill-boding
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Antonyms for baleful:
advantageous
agreeable
aiding
amiable
anodyne
approving
assisting
auspicious
behooveful
benefic
beneficent
beneficial
benevolent
benign
benignant
bland
boosting
bright
calm
cheering
comforting
constructive
dull
effective
encouraging
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- admit
- vision
- lady's
- evil
- hero
- a shot
- horny
- many
- flying
- behind
- counted
- needing
- fruitless
- allele
- beauty
- Lady
- lesion
- measly
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- prefer
- talking
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- dragging
- torture
- plateau
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- census
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