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Baleful vs Fateful - What's the difference?

baleful | fateful |

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)
  • 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.

    • fateful

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Momentous, significant, setting or sealing ones fate.
    • It started with that fateful trip, history was never the same afterwards.
  • Determined in advance by fate, fated.