ETYM AS. bealoful. Related to Bale misery.
1. Deadly or sinister; SYN. baneful.
2. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; SYN. forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening, ugly.

Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; SYN. inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting.

Gruesome; pertaining to death.

ETYM Accented on the middle syllable by the older poets, as Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden.
(Heraldry) On or starting from the wearer's left.
Of or on the left side of a heraldic shield.

1. Of or on the left
2. Preferring to use left foot or hand or eye

Destroyed, demolished; upset, crushed; hopeless