Banefulness

Banefulness
Baneful Bane"ful, a. Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. ``Baneful hemlock.'' --Garth. ``Baneful wrath.'' --Chapman. [1913 Webster] -- {Bane"ful*ly}, adv. --{Bane"ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]

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  • fatality — Synonyms and related words: Friday, Friday the thirteenth, appointed lot, astral influences, astrology, balefulness, banefulness, bodefulness, book of fate, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, constellation, cup, deadliness, death,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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  • harmfulness — Synonyms and related words: air, badness, balefulness, banefulness, bitchiness, contamination, cussedness, deadliness, detrimentalness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, evil intent, hatefulness, health hazard, hurtfulness, iniquitousness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • lethality — Synonyms and related words: balefulness, banefulness, deadliness, detrimentalness, fatality, harmfulness, hurtfulness, injuriousness, malignance, malignancy, malignity, mischievousness, mortality, noisomeness, noxiousness, ominousness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • malignancy — Synonyms and related words: balefulness, banefulness, bitchiness, communicability, contagiousness, cussedness, deadliness, despite, destructiveness, detrimentalness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, evil intent, fatality, grudge, harmfulness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • meaning — Synonyms and related words: acceptation, aim, allegory, allusion, ambition, animus, arcane meaning, aspiration, assumption, balefulness, banefulness, bodefulness, characterization, coloration, connotation, construction, content, counsel,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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