baneful en · ADJ
Etymology
From bane + -ful.
Meanings
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(archaic) Poisonous, deadly.
[S]ome fell ſerpent in his cave expects / The traveller's approach, batten'd vvith herbs / Of baneful juice to fury, forth he looks / Hideous, and lies coil'd all around his den.
1791, Homer, “[The Iliad.] Book XXII.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 577, lines 106–109:
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Harmful, injurious.
In this way writers and others seeking a monopoly for their views accepted and encouraged the baneful principle that it was for the party and state authorities to permit or prohibit this or that form of art.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozkład (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 52:This contempt of the understanding in early life has more baneful consequences than is commonly supposed […]
1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most baneful | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more baneful | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Relateds
banefully · banefulness · baleful · bane
Synonyms
Translations (19)
fi kohtalokas (Deadly) · grc μοιραῖος (Deadly) · ja 致死の (Deadly) · el μοιραίος (Deadly) · el θανατηφόρος (Deadly) · el επιζήμιος (Exceedingly harmful) · pl zgubny (Exceedingly harmful) · el καταστρεπτικός (Exceedingly harmful) · el ολέθριος (Exceedingly harmful) · ga urbhadhach (Exceedingly harmful) · bg гибелен (Deadly) · fr funeste (Exceedingly harmful) · uk згу́бний (Exceedingly harmful) · fr funeste (Deadly) · el θανάσιμος (Deadly) · fi tuhoisa (Exceedingly harmful) · ja 命取りの (Deadly) · bg пагубен (Deadly) · ja 有害な (Exceedingly harmful)