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Synonyms for MALICIOUS: vicious, cruel, hateful, nasty, malevolent, spiteful, malignant, bad; Antonyms of MALICIOUS: benign, benevolent, loving, sympathetic, good, kind, warm, compassionate.
adjective. us / məˈlɪʃ·əs / Add to word list. intending to cause harm, esp. by hurting someone’s feelings or reputation: He says she threatened him and spied on him, among other malicious activities. (Definition of malicious from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) malicious | Business English. adjective.
adjective. /məˈlɪʃəs/ having or showing a desire to harm somebody or hurt their feelings, caused by a feeling of hate synonym malevolent, spiteful. malicious gossip/lies/rumours. He took malicious pleasure in telling me what she had said. Extra Examples. Topics Personal qualities c1. Oxford Collocations Dictionary.
Someone who is malicious enjoys hurting or embarrassing others. If you're writing a book about good and evil, you'll want to come up with a truly malicious character to do all the bad stuff. Malicious is the adjective based on the noun malice, which means the desire to harm others.
1. : desire to cause pain, injury, or distress to another. an attack motivated by pure malice. 2. : intent to commit an unlawful act or cause harm without legal justification or excuse. ruined her reputation and did it with malice. see also malice aforethought. Did you know? Malicious, Malevolent, and Malice.
1. Having the nature of or resulting from malice; deliberately harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip. 2. Law Done with malice. ma·li′cious·ly adv. ma·li′cious·ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
adjective. uk / məˈlɪʃəs / us. Add to word list. intended to harm or upset someone: malicious gossip. malicious adjective (COMPUTING) Malicious software or computer programs are designed to damage other people's computers and prevent them from working normally: malicious programs.
