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unbaleful

unbaleful adjective: not baleful, harmless, innocent.

Adjective

unbaleful (comparative more unbaleful, superlative most unbaleful)

  1. Not baleful, harmless, innocent.
    • The Unbaleful Bourbon1948, Investors Chronicle and Money Market Review, volume 174, page 371
    • In the old days 'pourings on to boats' in New York were an ideal curtain to a visit: particularly in prohibition days, when you knew that in a very litde while you would be on a bar stool, ordering a legitimate and unbaleful glass of morning beer.2011, Alec Waugh, The Fatal Gift

Forms of unbaleful

comparativemore unbaleful
superlativemost unbaleful

Origin of unbaleful

From Middle English unbaleful, from Old English unbealuful, equivalent to un- + baleful.

Words formed from unbaleful

  • unbalefully

Questions about unbaleful

What does unbaleful mean?
Unbaleful means not baleful, harmless, innocent.
What part of speech is unbaleful?
Unbaleful is an adjective.

Words near unbaleful in the dictionary

  1. unbalancings
  2. unbalconied
  3. unbalding
  4. unbale
  5. unbaled
  6. unbaleful
  7. unbales
  8. unbaling
  9. unbalked
  10. unball
  11. unballast

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