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1.
full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious.
2.
Obsolete. wretched; miserable.
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Baleful
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Example Sentences
- Authenticity now dominates our way of viewing ourselves and our relationships, with baleful consequences.
- The polls corroborate the baleful economic portents.
- The sun rises in a baleful explosion of orange light.
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Word Origin & History
baleful
O.E. bealu-full, from bealu "harm, injury, ruin, evil, mischief, wickedness, a noxious thing," from P.Gmc. *balwom (cf. O.S. balu, O.Fris. balu "evil," O.H.G. balo "destruction," O.N. bol, Gothic balwjan "to torment"), from PIE base *bheleu- "to beat." During Anglo-Saxon times, in poetic use only (e.g.
EXPANDbealubenn "mortal wound," bealuðonc "evil thought"), and for long it was extinct, but revived by modern romantic poets.
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