Baleful vs Fateful - What's the difference?
baleful | fateful |
Portending evil; ominous.
* 1674 -- John Milton: )
* 1873 ,
Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.
Momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.
Determined in advance by fate, fated.
As adjectives the difference between baleful and fateful
is that baleful is portending evil; ominous while fateful is momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.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.
fateful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.