'Baneful' definitions:
Definition of 'baneful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
adjective
Deadly or sinister; "the Florida eagles have a fierce baleful look" [syn: baleful, baneful]
Definition of 'Baneful'
From: GCIDE
- Baneful \Bane"ful\, a. Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. "Baneful hemlock." --Garth. "Baneful wrath." --Chapman. [1913 Webster] -- {Bane"ful*ly}, adv. --{Bane"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'baneful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apocalyptic,
- appalling,
- atrocious,
- awful,
- bad,
- baleful,
- beastly,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- brutal,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- consuming,
- consumptive,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- corrupting,
- corruptive,
- counterproductive,
- damaging,
- dark,
- deadly,
- death-bringing,
- deathful,
- deathly,
- deleterious,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- desolating,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- detrimental,
- devastating,
- dire,
- direful,
- disadvantageous,
- disastrous,
- disserviceable,
- distressing,
- doomful,
- dreadful,
- dreary,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- feral,
- foreboding,
- fratricidal,
- gloomy,
- grim,
- harmful,
- hideous,
- horrendous,
- horrible,
- horrid,
- horrific,
- horrifying,
- hurtful,
- ill,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- inauspicious,
- injurious,
- insalubrious,
- internecine,
- killing,
- lethal,
- lowering,
- malefic,
- malevolent,
- malign,
- malignant,
- menacing,
- mischievous,
- mortal,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- pernicious,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- poisonous,
- portending,
- portentous,
- prejudicial,
- ravaging,
- rotten,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- savage,
- scatheful,
- self-destructive,
- shocking,
- sinister,
- somber,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- terrible,
- threatening,
- toxic,
- tragic,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unhealthy,
- unlucky,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unspeakable,
- untoward,
- unwholesome,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- venenate,
- veneniferous,
- venenous,
- venomous,
- vicious,
- virulent,
- wasteful,
- wasting,
- withering