Ant. Adorned, periwigged; forested, shaded; bright, elegant, rhetorical; ornate, polished, witty, scintillating.

Baleful. Harmful, hurtful, injurious, baneful, pernicious, deadly, ruinous.

Ant. Innocent, beneficial, salutary, advantageous.

Balk. Frustrate, defeat, foil.

Ant. Aid, promote, instigate.

Banish. Dismiss, drive out, eject, expel, exile, ostracize, evict, expatriate.

Ant. Welcome, admit, protect, domesticate, harbor.

Banquet. Feast, treat, regalement, entertainment, festivity, carousal, cheer.

Ant. Fast, starvation, abstinence.

Banter, n. Badinage, irony, raillery, ridicule, satire, chaff, mockery, jeering, derision.