All baleful synonyms
bale·ful
B b adj baleful
- calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
- deadly — If something is deadly, it is likely or able to cause someone's death, or has already caused someone's death.
- dire — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- foreboding — a prediction; portent.
- harmful — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
- hurtful — causing hurt or injury; injurious; harmful.
- injurious — harmful, hurtful, or detrimental, as in effect: injurious eating habits.
- malevolent — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
- malignant — disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred.
- noxious — harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being: noxious fumes.
- ominous — portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
- pernicious — causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful: pernicious teachings; a pernicious lie.
- ruinous — bringing or tending to bring ruin; destructive; disastrous: a ruinous war.
- sinister — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
- threatening — tending or intended to menace: threatening gestures.
- venomous — (of an animal) having a gland or glands for secreting venom; able to inflict a poisoned bite, sting, or wound: a venomous snake.
- vindictive — disposed or inclined to revenge; vengeful: a vindictive person.
- woeful — full of woe; wretched; unhappy: a woeful situation.