malicious
Adjective
- having the nature of or resulting from malice; ; - Rudyard Kipling
- "malicious gossip"
- "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"
Adj
- Intending to do harm; characterized by spite and malice.
Examples
- He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English malicious, from Old French malicios, from Latin malitiōsus, from malitia (“malice”), from malus (“bad”). Displaced native Middle English ivelwilled and ivelwilly (“malicious”), related to Old English yfelwillende (literally “evil-willing”).
Synonyms
abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, baneful, base, dark, deleterious, depraved, despicable, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, evil, flagitious, harmful, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, immoral, incorrigible, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, knavish, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, nefarious, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no-good, peccaminous, pernicious, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scathful, sinful, sinister, sordid, sullen, ungodly, unholy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 13
malicious: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmalicious: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
malicious: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary