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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
apocalyptic, bad, baneful, bitchy, black, bodeful, boding, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, cussed, damaging, dark, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, dire, direful, disadvantageous, disserviceable, distressing, doomful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, fateful, foreboding, gloomy, harmful, hateful, hurtful, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, iniquitous, injurious, invidious, lethal, lowering, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, menacing, mischievous, nasty, noisome, noxious, of evil portent, ominous, ornery, pernicious, poisonous, portending, portentous, prejudicial, scatheful, sinister, somber, threatening, toxic, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untoward, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, wicked
Dictionary Results for baleful:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
baleful
    adj 1: deadly or sinister; "the Florida eagles have a fierce
           baleful look" [syn: baleful, baneful]
    2: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a
       baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became
       menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm
       clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior";
       "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly" [syn:
       baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory,
       ominous, sinister, threatening]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Baleful \Bale"ful\ (b[=a]l"f[.u]l), a. [AS. bealoful. See Bale
   misery.]
   1. Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.
      "Baleful enemies." --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

            Four infernal rivers that disgorge
            Into the burning lake their baleful streams.
                                                  --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad. [Archaic]
      [1913 Webster]

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