baneful

English

From bane +‎ -ful.

baneful (comparative more baneful, superlative most baneful)

(archaic) Poisonous, deadly.
- 1791, Homer, W[illiam] Cowper, transl., “[The Iliad.] Book XXII.”, in The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 577, lines 106–109:
  [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.
Harmful, injurious.
- 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews, […], published 1792, →OCLC:
  This contempt of the understanding in early life has more baneful consequences than is commonly supposed […]

Deadly

Bulgarian: гибелен (bg) (gibelen), пагубен (bg) (paguben)
Finnish: kohtalokas (fi)
French: funeste (fr)
Greek: θανάσιμος (el) (thanásimos), θανατηφόρος (el) (thanatifóros), μοιραίος (el) (moiraíos)
Ancient: μοιραῖος (moiraîos)
Japanese: 致死の (ja) (chishi no), 命取りの (ja) (inochitori no)

Exceedingly harmful

Finnish: tuhoisa (fi)
French: funeste (fr)
Greek: ολέθριος (el) (oléthrios), επιζήμιος (el) (epizímios), καταστρεπτικός (el) (katastreptikós)
Irish: urbhadhach
Japanese: 有害な (ja) (yūgai na)
Polish: zgubny (pl)
Ukrainian: згу́бний (zhúbnyj)

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.