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Woeful vs Baleful - What's the difference?

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Woeful is a related term of baleful.


As adjectives the difference between woeful and baleful

is that woeful is full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity while baleful is portending evil; ominous.

woeful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
    • How many woeful widows left to bow / To sad disgrace! — Daniel.
  • Bringing calamity, distress, or affliction.
    • a woeful event
    a woeful lack of restraint
  • wretched; paltry; poor
    • What woeful stuff this madrigal would be! — Pope.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    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.