baneful

Main Entry:
baneful [beyn-fuhl]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ruinous, injurious
Synonyms: baleful, calamitous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, disastrous, evil, fatal, harmful, hurtful, malefic, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous, wicked
Notes: something is baleful that intends or portends harm or injury; something is baneful that produces harm or injury - thus, a glance may be baleful, an herb or poison baneful
Antonyms: advantageous, beneficial, beneficient, fortunate, helpful, lucky
Main Entry: deadly
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: causing end of life
Synonyms: baleful, baneful, bloodthirsty, bloody, cannibalistic, carcinogenic, cruel, dangerous, death-dealing, deathly, deleterious, destroying, destructive, fatal, grim, harmful, homicidal, injurious, internecine, killing, lethal, malignant, mortal, mortiferous, murderous, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, ruthless, savage, slaying, suicidal, toxic, unrelenting, venomous, violent, virulent
Notes: deadly means causing or capable of causing death while deathly means having the physical appearance of death
Antonyms: animating, energizing, harmless, healthful, healthy, invigorating, wholesome
Main Entry: destructive
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: injurious, devastating
Synonyms: annihilative, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, cutthroat, damaging, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, dire, disastrous, eradicative, evil, extirpative, fatal, fell, harmful, hurtful, internecine, lethal, lethiferous, mortal, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, ruinous, slaughterous, suicidal, toxic, venomous, wrackful, wreckful
Antonyms: aiding, assisting, building, creative, helpful, productive
Main Entry: direful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fearful; horrible
Synonyms: apocalyptic, appalling, awful, baleful, baneful, calamitous, dreadful, fateful, ghastly, gloomy, horrid, ill-boding, inauspicious, ominous, shocking, terrible, terrific, unlucky, unpropitious
Antonyms: good, nice
Main Entry: evil
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sinful, immoral
Synonyms: angry, atrocious, bad, baneful, base, beastly, calamitous, corrupt, damnable, depraved, destructive, disastrous, execrable, flagitious, foul, harmful, hateful, heinous, hideous, iniquitous, injurious, loathsome, low, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malignant, nefarious, no good, obscene, offensive, pernicious, poison, rancorous, reprobate, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, spiteful, stinking, ugly, unpleasant, unpropitious, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrathful, wrong
Antonyms: auspicious, decent, good, honest, moral, sinless, upright, virtuous
Main Entry: fatal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: deadly, lethal
Synonyms: baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, deathly, destructive, disastrous, fateful, final, ill-fated, ill-starred, incurable, inevitable, killing, malefic, malignant, mortal, mortiferous, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, terminal, virulent
Notes: use fatal for something which has caused someone's death; use lethal for something which is capable of killing someone
Antonyms: healthful, life-giving, nourishing, vital, wholesome
Main Entry: harmful
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: injurious, hurtful
Synonyms: adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consumptive, corroding, corrupting, crippling, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, evil, harassing, incendiary, inimical, internecine, malefic, malicious, malignant, menacing, mischievous, murderous, nocuous, noxious, painful, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, risky, ruinous, sinful, sinister, subversive, toxic, undermining, unhealthy, unsafe, unwholesome, virulent
Main Entry: inauspicious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: ominous, unpromising
Synonyms: bad, baleful, baneful, black, dire, discouraging, evil, fateful, foreboding, ill-boding, ill-omened, impending, inopportune, sinister, threatening, unfavorable, unfortunate, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untimely, untoward
Antonyms: auspicious, favorable, fortunate, lucky, promising
Main Entry: injurious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hurtful
Synonyms: abusive, adverse, bad, baneful, corrupting, damaging, dangerous, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, evil, harmful, iniquitous, insulting, libeling, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, noxious, opprobrious, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, ruinous, slanderous, unconducive, unhealthy, unjust, wrongful
Antonyms: aiding, assisting, beneficial, constructive, curing, fixing, good, healing, helpful, mending, nice
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