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Baleful

Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.

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Similar meaning 4

Alarming 84% connected

of Alarm

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Alarming 84% connected

of Alarm

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Maleficent 84% connected

Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Maleficent 84% connected

Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Maleficence 74% connected

Evil doing, esp. to others.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Maleficence 74% connected

Evil doing, esp. to others.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Baneful 92% connected

Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Forbidding 92% connected

of Forbid

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Menacing 92% connected

of Menace

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Minacious 92% connected

Threatening; menacing.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Minatory 92% connected

Threatening; menacing.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Ominous 92% connected

Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable s…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Sinister 92% connected

On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Threatening 92% connected

of Threaten

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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