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deadly
Extremely accurate; unerring:
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  1. Extremely accurate; unerring:
  2. Absolute; utter:
  3. Aiming or wanting to kill; implacable:
malignant
Very harmful, dangerous, or virulent
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  1. Very harmful, dangerous, or virulent
  2. Tending to metastasize:
  3. Harmful, malevolent, injurious.
noxious
Harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting:
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  1. Harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting:
  2. Morally injurious; corrupting; unwholesome
  3. Harmful to living things; injurious to health:
pernicious
(Rare) Wicked; evil
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  1. (Rare) Wicked; evil
  2. Causing great injury, destruction, or ruin; fatal; deadly
  3. Tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly:
pestilent
Likely to cause death; deadly
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  1. Likely to cause death; deadly
  2. (Rare) Contagious; pestilential
  3. Causing or likely to cause epidemic disease:
pestilential
Producing pestilence or plague; pestilent
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  1. Producing pestilence or plague; pestilent
  2. Of, causing, or likely to cause pestilence or infection
  3. Pernicious; dangerous; harmful
virulent
Extremely hostile or malicious:
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  1. Extremely hostile or malicious:
  2. Characterized by, causing, or promoting the rapid onset of severe illness. Used of a disease or toxin.
  3. Extremely poisonous or injurious; deadly
apocalyptic
Of or constituting a culminating or decisive event, turning point, etc., esp. one that is unsettling or threatening
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  1. Of or constituting a culminating or decisive event, turning point, etc., esp. one that is unsettling or threatening
  2. Characterized by predictions of or allusions to a disastrous outcome:
  3. Relating to or predicting the end of the world, especially as described in the Bible or another religious text.
dire
Calling for quick action; urgent
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  1. Calling for quick action; urgent
  2. Arousing terror or causing extreme distress; dreadful; terrible
  3. Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous:
direful
Foreshadowing evil or disaster; ominous.
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  1. Foreshadowing evil or disaster; ominous.
  2. Inspiring dread; terrible.
fateful
Determined in advance by fate, fated.
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  1. Determined in advance by fate, fated.
  2. Having important consequences; often, specif., bringing death or destruction
  3. Momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.
fire-and-brimstone
Characterized by an impassioned emphasis on damnation and eternal punishment
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  1. Characterized by an impassioned emphasis on damnation and eternal punishment
grave
(--- Theol.) So evil as to cause spiritual death; mortal
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  1. (--- Theol.) So evil as to cause spiritual death; mortal
  2. Dignified and somber in conduct or character:
  3. Fraught with danger or harm:
ominous
Menacing; threatening:
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  1. Menacing; threatening:
  2. Of or serving as an omen; esp., having the character of an evil omen; threatening; sinister
  3. Of or being an omen, especially an evil one.
portentous
Marked by pompousness; pretentiously weighty.
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  1. Marked by pompousness; pretentiously weighty.
  2. Of momentous or ominous significance.
  3. Full of unspecifiable significance; exciting wonder and awe:
unlucky
Subjected to or marked by misfortune:
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  1. Subjected to or marked by misfortune:
  2. Unfortunate, marked by misfortune
  3. Resulting or likely to result in misfortune; inauspicious:
Find another word for baneful. In this page you can discover 21 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for baneful, like: deadly, malignant, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, virulent, apocalyptic, apocalyptical, dire and direful.

Sentence Examples

  • It tended to destroy the power of self-command, and exposed the master to the baneful influences of flattery.

  • Such were some of the methods that Torquemada introduced into the Spanish Inquisition, which was to have so baneful an effect upon the whole country.

  • In this manner the movement in favour of ending the baneful regime of Leopold II.

  • Their baneful activities were exposed in the inquiries that followed the Irish rebellion of 1798, and the result was the Corresponding Societies Bill, introduced by Pitt on the i9th of April 1799, which completed the series of repressive measures and practically suspended the f~opular constitution of England.

  • He was perhaps wanting in firmness of character, and the undue influence exercised over him by unscrupulous ministers, or by the seductions of fairer but no less ambitious votaries of statecraft, led him to make concessions which tarnished the glory of his reign, and were followed by baneful results for the welfare of his empire.

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