MALICIOUS
Dictionary entry overview: What does malicious mean?
• MALICIOUS (adjective)
The adjective MALICIOUS has 1 sense:
1. having the nature of or resulting from malice
Familiarity information: MALICIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MALICIOUS (adjective)
Meaning:
Having the nature of or resulting from malice
Context examples:
malicious gossip / took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince
Similar:
despiteful; spiteful; vindictive (showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite)
leering (showing sly or knowing malice in a glance)
malevolent (wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred)
beady-eyed (having eyes that gleam with malice)
bitchy; cattish; catty (marked by or arising from malice)
poisonous; venomous; vicious (marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful)
venomed (full of malice or hate)
vixenish (shrewish and malicious)
Antonym:
unmalicious (not malicious or spiteful)
