Synonyms and Antonyms of baneful
causing or capable of causing harm
- the incredibly baneful effect that drug addiction has on so many communities
adverse, bad, baleful, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked
hostile, inimical, unfriendly
contagious, deadly, infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous
insidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening
hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound
nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome
destructive, fatal, killer, lethal, malignant, ruinous
advantageous, beneficial, useful
favorable, good, propitious
curative, healthful, healthy, helpful, palliative, remedial, salubrious, salutary, wholesome
secure, sound
benignant
noncorrosive, nondestructive, nonfatal, noninfectious, nonlethal, nonpoisonous, nonpolluting, nontoxic, nonvenomous
