baneful
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9.1
- adjective
- /ˈbeɪn.fəl/
- Formal
:
pernicioso
- The grand example of mutual vulnerability in the environment is climate change because the movements of the earth's atmosphere mix everyone's pollution together and bring its baneful effects to bear indiscriminately.
- baneful violence
- baneful and beneficial
Examples
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I spent the hours lapsing from moment to moment into a drowsiness interlaced with baneful nightmares.
Fiction book (1994) -
Though they sometimes claimed to be protecting innocent students from Peirce's allegedly baneful moral influence, they also took care to deny him opportunities for guest lectures and pure research that involved no student contact.
Academic text (1994) -
If they can witness the form of this baneful alteration, perhaps they can visualize the cure.
Fiction book (1996) -
"We know as well, what are the baneful fruits of selfishness and self-indulgence.
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Our world today is not lacking in examples of both moral vacuity and moral dogmatism, and the baneful consequences of both.
Academic text (1991) -
They were also wary of religious zeal and its baneful consequences.
Academic text (1998) -
Today, the ice would melt before noon, and the temperature of internal parts would continue to rise, reaching the incubation point for colonies of baneful organisms.
Fiction book (1998) -
And if our interest is in the explanation of the processes of disease and death, we may construct functional analyses that illustrate the contributions of our organs to such baneful outcomes.
Academic text (1999) -
The factory's waste had a baneful effect on the nearby river, harming many species of fish.
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Her baneful actions led to a significant decline in the community's trust and well-being.
Synonyms
243
4.2
Causing great damage or harm
224
5.1
Causing very great damage or sadness
161
2.6
Causing damage to people, animals or things
49
6.3
Causing harm to people, things, or the environment
23
8.2
Harmful in a slow and hidden way
10
7.0
Causing very serious harm to people or businesses
9
8.5
Harmful to people, animals, or plants
6
7.9
An event that causes great harm or loss
4
7.6
A harmful, evil force that causes people or things to suffer
4
8.4
Looking or sounding dangerous and making you feel afraid
3
6.8
Causing problems that make someone or something worse off
1
2.9
Causing harm to living things like people or animals
1
8.8
Very harmful and causing great trouble or damage
Causing very large, sudden destruction that changes a place
Antonyms
How Harmful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Baneful comes from the old word bane, which meant 'poison' or a 'cause of death', plus the ending -ful meaning 'full of'. So something baneful is 'full of harm' and likely to cause great damage.