baleful

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more balefulmost baleful

Superlative

balefull

1.
Portending evil; ominous.
I learned the speech of birds; now every tree Screams out to me a baleful prophecy.
Đồng nghĩa: foreboding, portentous, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous, divine, fatal, foreboding, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicate, inauspicious, nefastous, omenic, ominous, brooding, portentous, presageful, presagious, prodigious, sinister, star-crossed, sullen
2.
(obsolete)Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.
3.
(obsolete)Deadly, mortal.
Đồng nghĩa: fatal, lethal, terminal

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

forebodingportentousaugurousbodefulboding dire disastrous divine fatalill-bodingill-fatedill-omenedill-starredinauspicateinauspiciousnefastousomenicominous brooding presageful

Cùng gốc / liên quan

balefulnessbalefullyunbaleful

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English baleful, balful, baluful, from Old English bealuful, which was equivalent to bealu + -ful. en bale ful. See bale for further etymology.