"baleful" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈbeɪl.fəl/ Forms: more baleful [comparative], most baleful [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English baleful, balful, baluful, from Old English bealuful, which being equivalent to bealu + -ful. By surface analysis, bale (“evil, woe”) + -ful. See bale for further etymology. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|baleful}} Middle English baleful, {{m|enm|balful}} balful, {{m|enm|baluful}} baluful, {{inh|en|ang|bealuful}} Old English bealuful, {{suffix|ang|bealu|ful}} bealu + -ful, {{surf|en|bale|-ful||gloss1=evil, woe|pos=adjective}} By surface analysis, bale (“evil, woe”) + -ful, {{l|en|bale}} bale Head templates: {{en-adj}} baleful (comparative more baleful, superlative most baleful)
  1. Portending evil; ominous. Translations (ominous): зловещ (zlovešt) (Bulgarian), onheilspellend (alt: 1) (Dutch), miserabel (Dutch), wanhopig (alt: 2) (Dutch), turmiollinen (Finnish), uhkaava (Finnish), pahanenteinen (Finnish), sinistre (French), ominoso (Galician), funesto (Galician), funesto (Italian), bealu (Old English), złowieszczy (Polish), па́губный (págubnyj) [masculine] (Russian), zloslutan (Serbo-Croatian), zloguk (Serbo-Croatian), funesto (Spanish), torvo (Spanish), olycksbådande (Swedish), лиховісний (lyxovisnyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), зловіщий (zloviščyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-baleful-en-adj-Gzj1J-Wh Categories (other): English adjectives suffixed with -ful, English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English terms suffixed with -ful Disambiguation of English adjectives suffixed with -ful: 34 34 32 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 33 37 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 20 29 33 17 2 0 Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -ful: 20 28 32 19 1 0 Disambiguation of 'ominous': 97 1 2
  2. (obsolete) Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering. Tags: obsolete Translations (wretched): tūreikura (Maori), zlosretan (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-baleful-en-adj-fKf8hlVQ Categories (other): English adjectives suffixed with -ful, English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English terms suffixed with -ful Disambiguation of English adjectives suffixed with -ful: 34 34 32 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 33 37 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 20 29 33 17 2 0 Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -ful: 20 28 32 19 1 0 Disambiguation of 'wretched': 1 95 4
  3. (obsolete) Deadly, mortal. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-baleful-en-adj-wMBuBsoO Categories (other): English adjectives suffixed with -ful, English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English terms suffixed with -ful, Old English terms suffixed with -ful Disambiguation of English adjectives suffixed with -ful: 34 34 32 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 33 37 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 20 29 33 17 2 0 Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -ful: 20 28 32 19 1 0 Disambiguation of Old English terms suffixed with -ful: 20 32 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: balefull [archaic] Derived forms: balefully, unbaleful

Adjective [Middle English]

IPA: /ˈbaːlful/, /ˈbalful/
Etymology: From Old English bealuful. By surface analysis, bale + -ful. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|bealuful}} Old English bealuful, {{surf|enm|bale|-ful}} By surface analysis, bale + -ful Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective||{{{1}}}||{{{2}}}||{{{3}}}|head=}} baleful, {{enm-adj}} baleful
  1. evil, horrible, malicious
    Sense id: en-baleful-enm-adj-lfNdyfh7 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English terms suffixed with -ful Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 20 29 33 17 2 0 Disambiguation of Middle English terms suffixed with -ful: 20 28 32 19 1 0
  2. (rare) dangerous, harmful, injurious Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-baleful-enm-adj-H6mybZv~
  3. (rare) worthless, petty, lowly Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-baleful-enm-adj-Mv20b0ZQ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: balful, baluful, balefulle, balefule, balleful, balefull, balfulle Derived forms: balfulli

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 194",
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          "ref": "1949, Naomi Replansky, “Complaint of the Ignorant Wizard” in Ring Song (published 1952)",
          "text": "I learned the speech of birds; now every tree\nScreams out to me a baleful prophecy."
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          "ref": "2020 November 13, Duncan Campbell, “Peter Sutcliffe obituary”, in The Guardian",
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          "ref": "2023 September 2, Simon Schama, “The real Rino”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 2",
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        "4": "",
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      "args": {
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        "2": "bale"
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "form": "more baleful",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most baleful",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1873, James Thomson (B.V.), The City of Dreadful Night",
          "text": "The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms,\nAmidst the soundless solitudes immense\nOf ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 186",
          "text": "According to them all sorcerers, necromancers and evil-doers were born under the baleful influence of the seventh calendic sign[.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 194",
          "text": "[…] he went off alone with his family, and, watched by the day's red baleful eye, pumped the pump-car homeward, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949, Naomi Replansky, “Complaint of the Ignorant Wizard” in Ring Song (published 1952)",
          "text": "I learned the speech of birds; now every tree\nScreams out to me a baleful prophecy."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 13, Duncan Campbell, “Peter Sutcliffe obituary”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Few people cast a more baleful shadow over postwar Britain than Peter Sutcliffe, the “Yorkshire Ripper”, who has died aged 74",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 September 2, Simon Schama, “The real Rino”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 2",
          "text": "In their excellent essay in The Atlantic endorsing disqualification, Luttig and Tribe remind us that the first president, in his 1796 Farewell Address, had foreseen many of the elements of this baleful disaster.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Portending evil; ominous."
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        [
          "Portending",
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        [
          "evil",
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        ],
        [
          "ominous",
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        ]
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering."
      ],
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        [
          "wretched",
          "wretched"
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        "(obsolete) Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering."
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        "obsolete"
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      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Deadly, mortal."
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          "mortal",
          "mortal"
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        "(obsolete) Deadly, mortal."
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      "ipa": "/ˈbeɪl.fəl/"
    }
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    }
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zlovešt",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "зловещ"
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      "alt": "1",
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      "sense": "ominous",
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      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "miserabel"
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      "alt": "2",
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "wanhopig"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "turmiollinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "uhkaava"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "pahanenteinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "sinistre"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "ominoso"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "funesto"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "funesto"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "bealu"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "złowieszczy"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "págubnyj",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "па́губный"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "zloslutan"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "zloguk"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "funesto"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "word": "torvo"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "ominous",
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "lyxovisnyj",
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "лиховісний"
    },
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "zloviščyj",
      "sense": "ominous",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "зловіщий"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "wretched",
      "word": "tūreikura"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "wretched",
      "word": "zlosretan"
    }
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  "word": "baleful"
}

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    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms suffixed with -ful",
    "Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation"
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    {
      "word": "balfulli"
    }
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      "name": "inh"
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      "args": {},
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  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "glosses": [
        "evil, horrible, malicious"
      ],
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
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      ],
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    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with rare senses"
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      "glosses": [
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      ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbaːlful/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbalful/"
    }
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      "word": "baluful"
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      "word": "balefulle"
    },
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      "word": "balefule"
    },
    {
      "word": "balleful"
    },
    {
      "word": "balefull"
    },
    {
      "word": "balfulle"
    }
  ],
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}
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  "called_from": "translations/324",
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    "baleful"
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  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "baleful",
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}

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