baleful

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Portending evil; ominous.
    — The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, Amidst the soundless solitudes immense Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
  2. Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering. obsolete
    — Thou balefull Messenger, out of my sight:
  3. Deadly, mortal. obsolete
    — With balefull weedes, and precious Iuiced flowers, / The earth that's Natures mother, is her Tombe,

词形变化

more baleful comparative most baleful superlative balefull alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
balefully balefulness unbaleful

词源

From Middle English baleful, balful, baluful, from Old English bealuful, which was equivalent to bealu + -ful. By surface analysis, bale (“evil, woe”) + -ful. See bale for further etymology.
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