Baleful
Baleful adjective - Being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come.
Usage example: a dark, baleful sky portending a tornado
Ill-boding and baleful are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ill-boding" instead an adjective "Baleful".
Ill-boding
Ill-boding adjective - Being or showing a sign of evil or calamity to come.
Usage example: in an ill-boding turn of events, the government began rounding up political dissidents
Baleful and ill-boding are semantically related. You can use "Baleful" instead an adjective phrase "Ill-boding".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- foreboding and baleful
- foreboding and ill-boding
- forbidding and baleful
- forbidding and ill-boding
- baneful and baleful
- baneful and ill-boding
- sinister and baleful
- sinister and ill-boding
- inauspicious and baleful
- inauspicious and ill-boding
- evil and baleful
- evil and ill-boding
- ominous and baleful
- ominous and ill-boding
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