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Disastrous vs Baleful - What's the difference?

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Disastrous is a related term of baleful.


As adjectives the difference between disastrous and baleful

is that disastrous is of the nature of a disaster; calamitous while baleful is portending evil; ominous.

disastrous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
  • foreboding disaster; ill-omened.

    • Synonyms

    * (calamitous) cataclysmic, catastrophic * (ill-omened) ill-boding, , sinister

    Derived terms

    * disastrously

    baleful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * balefull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Portending evil; ominous.
  • * 1674 -- John Milton: )
    • round he throws his baleful eyes, that witnessed huge affliction and dismay.
  • * 1873 ,
    • The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms,
    Amidst the soundless solitudes immense
    Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
  • Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.