baleful

baleful is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 16 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.
2. adjective. Full of grief or sorrow; woeful; sad.
3. adjective. threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

   "a baleful look"

   "forbidding thunderclouds"

   Synonyms: forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening

4. adjective. deadly or sinister

   "the Florida eagles have a fierce baleful look"

   Synonyms: baneful

Synonyms

forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening, baneful

Common word forms

balefully, balefulness

Words from these letters

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