Hi guys!
Word Of the Week (WOW) is a weekly meme created by Heena Rathore P. (me.) Itโs a fun way to improve oneโsย vocabulary by learning new words every week.ย If you want to participate then simply do a post with your WORD and leave the link to your post as a comment on one of my WOW post.
Hereโs the WOW for this weekย :
Word:
Baleful
Part Of Speech:
Adjective
Derivatives:
- balefullyย adverbย
- balefullnessย ย noun
Pronunciation:
|หbeษชlfสl,ย -f(ษ)l| ;ย baleยทful
Meaning:
Threatening harm; menacing.
Having a harmful or destructive effect.
Synonyms:
Menacing, threatening, hostile, unfriendly antagonistic, evil, wicked, nasty, acrimonious, malevolent, malicious, malignant, sinister, virulent.
Antonyms:
Benevolent, friendly.
Wordย Origin:
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Usageย Note:ย
Baleful and baneful overlap in meaning, but baleful usually applies to something that is menacing or foreshadows evil: a baleful ย look. Baneful most often describes that which is actually harmful or destructive: baneful effects of their foreign policy.
-The Free Dictionary by Random House
Use Inย Sentences:
- She gave him a baleful stare.
Source: Exit Within: the Gallegos Blog - Heย shot a baleful glance in her direction.
Source: Boxing.com - The baleful influence of Rasputin.
I hope you guys like this wordย and hope itโs useful to you in some or the other way! If you want to check out more words like this, then visit my page:
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13 responses to “Word Of The Week (WOW #30)”
http://wp.me/p51kmE-7W. My WOW post
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Thanks Priya ๐
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Ahh, my wife is a practitioner of the baleful stare! ๐
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Haha! I guess al the females are ๐
Poor guys!!!
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A new word for me ๐ I have only known bane ๐
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Thanks! at least you know bane, the only bane(s) I know of are Christian Bale and Gareth Bale ๐
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Had to check for the meaning of the name of the person when seeing a villain beating up Batman ๐
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Haha! Lemme know if you get it ๐
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And then I got Bane ๐
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My WOW post http://wp.me/p51kmE-8b
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A new word to me… Great section of your blog!… Thanks so much for sharing it!…
Best wishes. Aquileana ๐
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Thanks a lot Aquileana ๐
I’m glad you like it!
Have a great day!
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