Synonyms for malevolent
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Malicious — having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others
malicious, evil, malign, evil-minded, sinister, malignant, vicious, maleficent, diabolical, devilish, diabolic, malefic, bad, mischievous, ill-natured, fiendish, spiteful, baleful, hateful, wicked, pernicious, baneful
Definitions
- adj. 1
Having or displaying ill will; wishing harm on others.
Related words
- Word family
- malevolence
Example sentences
- evil Grr! Avoid not, unwelcome evil and cowardly beast!
- malicious There shall be no hindrances to my malicious plan.
- sinister Gustavo's tone and mannerisms were really sinister.
By length
- 3 letters
- bad1
- 4 letters
- evil2
- 6 letters
- wicked2, malign2
- 7 letters
- vicious2, hateful2, baleful2, malefic, baneful
- 8 letters
- sinister3, spiteful2, devilish2, fiendish2, diabolic
- 9 letters
- malicious3, malignant3
- 10 letters
- diabolical5, pernicious3, maleficent
- 11 letters
- mischievous3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (evil2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- malintentionné
- Italiano
- malintenzionato
- Español
- malintencionado