balefully

1. 1.

   in a baleful manner

   “she looked at him balefully”

Questions about balefully

What does balefully mean?

balefully means "in a baleful manner".

How many syllables are in balefully?

balefully has 4 syllables and divides as ba-le-ful-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is balefully a common word?

balefully is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.