险恶 — meaning in English

English meaning

• baleful adj Portending evil; ominous.
• grim adj Bleak, gloomy, or discouraging.
• macabre adj Disturbingly focused on death, or gruesome and horrifying to look at.
• sinister adj Suggesting evil intent or hidden danger.

Senses

险恶 is used for these senses in English:

• baleful Portending evil; ominous.
• grim Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
• macabre Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.
• sinister Inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, illegitimate (as in bar sinister).

baleful — full definition

1. adj Portending evil; ominous.
2. adj Miserable, wretched, distressed, suffering.
3. adj Deadly, mortal.

grim — full definition

1. adj Bleak, gloomy, or discouraging.
2. adj Stern, harsh, or unyielding in expression or manner.

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