baleful
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Is baleful a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.Examples: "Thou balefull Messenger, out of my sight:"; "round he throws his baleful eyes, that witnessed huge affliction and dismay […]"obsolete
2. (obsolete) Deadly, mortal.Examples: "With balefull weedes, and precious Iuiced flowers, / The earth that's Natures mother, is her Tombe,"; "If some were akin to the Formori of the baleful fogs in Irish mythic history and the Mallt-y-nos, those she-demons of marshy lands immortalised by the Welsh bards, creatures huge and uncouth "with grey and glaring eyes," there were others who exceeded in beauty anything human."Synonyms: fatal, lethal, terminalobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary