malicious

malicious

English

Alternative forms

• malitious (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French malicios, from Latin malitiosus, from malitia (“malice”), from malus (“bad”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: məlĭsh'əs, IPA^(key): /məˈlɪʃəs/

Adjective

malicious (comparative more malicious, superlative most malicious)

1. Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite
2. spiteful and deliberately harmful

   He was sent off for a malicious tackle on Jones.

Synonyms

• malevolent
• evil
• See also Thesaurus:evil

Derived terms

• maliciously
• maliciousness
• malicious mischief

Translations

Of, pertaining to, or as a result of malice or spite

Armenian: նենգ (hy) (neng) Bulgarian: злобен (bg) (zlóben), злостен (bg) (zlósten) Catalan: maliciós Chinese: Mandarin: 惡意的 (zh), 恶意的 (zh) (èyì de) Czech: záludný (cs) Danish: maliciøs Dutch: boos (nl), kwaad (nl), kwaadaardig (nl) Estonian: pahatahtlik Finnish: ilkeä (fi) French: malveillant (fr) Galician: malicioso m German: böse (de), boshaft (de), malitiös Greek: κακόβουλος (el) m (kakóvoulos), κακεντρεχής (el) m (kakentrechís), μοχθηρός (el) m (mochthirós), κακοήθης (el) (kakoḯthis) Ancient Greek: κακοήθης (kakoḗthēs)

Ido: mal-vol-anta, maligna (io) Indonesian: hasad (id), jahat (id) Italian: doloso (it), cattivo (it), malizioso (it), malevole (it) Japanese: 悪意のある (ja) (あくいのある, akui no aru) Macedonian: малициозен (maliciozen), злобен (zloben), пакосен (pakosen) Polish: złośliwy (pl) m Portuguese: malicioso (pt), maldoso (pt) Romanian: malițios (ro) m, răutăcios (ro) m, răutăcioasă f Russian: злой (ru) (zloj), зло́бный (ru) (zlóbnyj), зло́стный (ru) (zlóstnyj) Serbo-Croatian: mȁliciōzan (sh), zlȍban (sh) Slovene: zloben, hudoben Spanish: maligno (es) Swedish: uppsåtlig (sv)

Deliberately harmful; spiteful

Armenian: նենգ (hy) (neng) Azerbaijani: pis məqsədli, qərəzli, pisniyyət, pisniyyətli Catalan: maliciós Czech: škodolibý, zlomyslný (cs), zlovolný m Esperanto: malica Finnish: pahansuopa (fi), pahantahtoinen (fi) French: mauvais (fr) Greek: μοχθηρός (el) m (mochthirós) Ancient Greek: κακοήθης (kakoḗthēs) Indonesian: berniat jahat Macedonian: недобронамерен (nedobronameren), злонамерен (zlonameren)

Malay: berniat jahat Maori: waniwani, whakakinokino, hīkaka, kikokiko Norwegian: ondsinnet Polish: złowrogi (pl) m, zły (pl) m, wrogi (pl) m Russian: злоумы́шленный (ru) (zloumýšlennyj), злонаме́ренный (ru) (zlonamérennyj) Serbo-Croatian: mȁliciōzan (sh), zlonámjēran (sh) Slovene: škodoželjen (sl) Swedish: ond (sv), elak (sv), maliciös (sv), uppsåtlig (sv) Turkish: kötü niyetli, kötü amaçlı, kötücül (tr) Westrobothnian: nåk