GRE word of the Day: Baleful (Adj)
Baleful (Adj)
In the cricket ground, throwing bale is baleful for batsman.
Trying to hurl bales (Courtesy: bbc.co.uk)
Flying Bales (Courtesy:bbc.co.uk)
1. Portending evil; ominous. See Synonyms at sinister.
2. Harmful or malignant in intent or effect.
Usage Note: Baleful and baneful overlap in meaning, but baleful usually applies to something that is menacing or foreshadows evil: a baleful look. Baneful [...]
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Baleful (Adj)
In the cricket ground, throwing bale is baleful for batsman.
Trying to hurl bales (Courtesy: bbc.co.uk)
Flying Bales (Courtesy:bbc.co.uk)
1. Portending evil; ominous. See Synonyms at sinister.
2. Harmful or malignant in intent or effect.
Usage Note: Baleful and baneful overlap in meaning, but baleful usually applies to something that is menacing or foreshadows evil: a baleful look. Baneful most often describes that which is actually harmful or destructive: baneful effects of their foreign policy.
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>> It was a baleful choice and seemed to hold some secret and subtle association with the situation and general progress of events; or at any rate there was apparently some obscure reason for the energy and vim with which the scholars shouted the choral invitation again and again:–
—Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas
>> Overcome with moss and baleful mistletoe;
—Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare, William
>> The archers dropped upon one knee as he passed, but he gave them a single baleful look and was gone.
—Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker
>> Then one of the judges, a kinsman to William of the Scar, rose with trembling lip and baleful look.
—The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Pyle, Howard
>> baleful effects
>> contends that the violent content of so much of popular entertainment is a baleful influence on our society
>> a medicine that is beneficial in small doses but baleful in large
baleful (antonym)
A) baneful
B) sinister
C) pernicious
D) malign
E) warm
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#1. July 14th, 2006, at 11:28 AM.
E. warm
- Friendly and responsive
- Having or displaying warmth or affection
Sinister, Pernicoious, Malign, Baneful are the syn of baneful.