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Taleful vs Baleful - What's the difference?

taleful | baleful |

As adjectives the difference between taleful and baleful

is that taleful is abounding with stories while baleful is portending evil; ominous.

taleful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Abounding with stories.
    • The cottage hind / Hangs o'er th'enlivening blaze, and taleful there / Recounts his simple frolic.'' ?? Thomson, ''Winter .

    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.