Baleful vs Coldhearted - What's the difference?
baleful | coldhearted | Synonyms |
Portending evil; ominous.
* 1674 -- John Milton: )
* 1873 ,
Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.
* {{quote-news, 2009, January 18, Charles Isherwood, Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages, New York Times, url=
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Baleful is a synonym of coldhearted.
As adjectives the difference between baleful and coldhearted
is that baleful is portending evil; ominous while coldhearted is .baleful
English
Alternative forms
* balefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- round he throws his baleful eyes, that witnessed huge affliction and dismay.
- The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms,
- Amidst the soundless solitudes immense
- Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.