OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 27546

baleful

/ˈbeɪl.fəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
funesto • torvo
Portending evil; ominous.
According to them all sorcerers, necromancers and evil-doers were born under the baleful influence of the seventh calendic sign[.]
The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, Amidst the soundless solitudes immense Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.