baleful vs menacing

baleful and menacing both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
baleful	No	Yes	No	No
menacing	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, baleful and menacing are synonyms defined as:

baleful and menacing: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

Other synonyms of baleful include forbidding, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening.

baleful (adjective)	menacing (adjective)
threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments	threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
deadly or sinister