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baneful
CIDE DICTIONARY
baneful, a.
Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
baneful
apocalyptic, appalling, atrocious, awful, bad, baleful, beastly, black, bodeful, boding, brutal, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, dark, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, deleterious, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, detrimental, devastating, dire, direful, disadvantageous, disastrous, disserviceable, distressing, doomful, dreadful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, fatal, fateful, feral, foreboding, fratricidal, gloomy, grim, harmful, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, horrifying, hurtful, ill, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, injurious, insalubrious, internecine, killing, lethal, lowering, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, menacing, mischievous, mortal, nihilist, nihilistic, noisome, noxious, of evil portent, ominous, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, portending, portentous, prejudicial, ravaging, rotten, ruining, ruinous, savage, scatheful, self-destructive, shocking, sinister, somber, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, terrible, threatening, toxic, tragic, unfavorable, unfortunate, unhealthy, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, unspeakable, untoward, unwholesome, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, wasteful, wasting, witheringROGET THESAURUS
baneful
Badness
N badness, hurtfulness, virulence, evil doer, bane, plague spot, evil star, ill wind, hoodoo, Jonah, snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet, amari aliquid, thorn in the side, malignity, malevolence, tender mercies, ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage, misusage, injury, knockout drops, badness, peccancy, abomination, painfulness, pestilence, guilt, depravity, hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful, injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome, prejudicial, disserviceable, disadvantageous, wide-wasting, unlucky, sinister, obnoxious, untoward, disastrous, oppressive, burdensome, onerous, malign, corrupting &c (corrupt), virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive, poisonous, deadly, destructive, inauspicious, bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful, horrid, horrible, dire, rank, peccant, foul, fulsome, rotten, rotten at the core, vile, base, villainous, mean, injured, deteriorated, unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent, below par, illcontrived, ill-conditioned, wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, pitiable, woeful, evil, wrong, depraved, shocking, reprehensible, hateful, hateful as a toad, abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded, damned, damnable, infernal, diabolic, unadvisable, unprofitable, incompetent, irremediable, badly, wrong, ill, to one's cost, where the shoe pinches, bad is the best: the worst come to the worst, herba mala presto cresco, wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged.Bane
N bane, curse, evil, hurtfulness, painfulness, scourge, damnosa hereditas, white elephant, sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle, poison, toxin, teratogen, leaven, virus venom, arsenic, antimony, tartar emetic, strychnine, nicotine, miasma, miasm, mephitis, malaria, azote, sewer gas, pest, Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid, bichloride of mercury, carbonic acid, carbonic gas, choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp, hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide, marsh gas, nux vomica, ratsbane, hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite, banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish, Upas tree, Toxline (online), rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew, dry rot, canker, cankerworm, cancer, torpedo, viper, demon, toxicology, baneful, poisonous, phr, bibere venenum in auro, Contingent Subservience.For further exploring for "baneful" in Webster Dictionary Online