Definitions for baleful

baleful bale·ful

Spelling: [beyl-fuh l]
IPA: /ˈbeɪl fəl/

Baleful is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in baleful (abefllu).

Definitions for baleful

adjective

  1. full of menacing or malign influences; pernicious.
  2. Obsolete. wretched; miserable.

Origin of baleful

before 1000; Middle English; Old English bealofull. See bale2, -ful

Examples for baleful

As he disappeared her beautiful face darkened with a baleful cloud.

This was, of course, Mary Grey, bound upon her baleful errand.

There was not an artifice I did not practise to cure myself of this baleful infatuation.

The regard they fixed on his face was baleful in its intentness.

Bill cast a baleful glance at his rival and thrust 247 out his chin insolently.

She will unearth more than their remains in a quest that becomes a journey of baleful discovery and painful self-discovery.

THEN the baleful fiend its fire belched out, and bright homes burned.

Gian Maria returned him no answer, but his baleful eye was upon Martino.

Richard paled under the baronet's baleful, half-sneering glance.

Of all mortal possessions they are the most useless, mischievous, and baleful.

Word Value for baleful
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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